Test 2 · ★★ · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

«Mia says lemmings jump off cliffs together, saw it in a film» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, lemmings, film · What happens: say, jump off, see, be · To what, where: cliffs, it, film · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	nsubj
5	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 cliffs	case
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	obl
8	together	together	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 film	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 film	det
14	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 film	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 film	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mia				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	jump off in a quote	present	lemmings	cliffs		together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory
3	see in a quote	past	lemmings not said here	it	a film		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	present	a film			true property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

They jump off to fly to warm places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jump	nsubj
2	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 jump	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 jump	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 places	case
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 places	amod
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	present	They						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	to-infinitive	They not said here					to warm places result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That old film was staged; real lemmings do not jump on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 film	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 film	amod
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staged	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 staged	aux:pass
5	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 jump	punct
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lemmings	amod
8	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jump	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 jump	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 jump	advmod
11	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 staged	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 purpose	case
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stage	past · passive		that old film					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not jump	present · do-support	real lemmings			purpose			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Trajectory

Option 3

Only the baby lemmings jump off, while their parents watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lemmings	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lemmings	compound
4	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	nsubj
5	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 watch	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 watch	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 watch	nsubj
11	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	present	the baby lemmings					off property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	present	lemmings's parents						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They really do it every spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 do	advmod
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	They	it			spring		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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