Test 5 · ★★ · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

«why's the bull in the cartoon mad at red, are bulls weird» What is the real answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bull · What happens: be · To what, where: bull, cartoon, real answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	_	5 bull	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bull	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bull	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bull	det
5	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weird	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cartoon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cartoon	det
8	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bull	nmod
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cartoon	amod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 red	case
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mad	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bull	punct
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 weird	cop
14	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 weird	nsubj
15	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 weird	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 answer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weird	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the bull	the cartoon		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the bull			weird property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the real answer			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

Red smells bad to bulls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smells	amod
2	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bad	nsubj
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bulls	case
5	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bad	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Bulls are scared of all bright colours, but red frightens them most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 colours	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 colours	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colours	amod
7	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frightens	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 frightens	cc
10	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frightens	nsubj
11	frightens	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 frightens	obj
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 frightens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bulls					of all bright colours; scared property	tree rules
2	frighten	present	red	Bulls = bull					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 3

Bulls hate the colour red most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 red	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 red	compound
5	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 hate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Bulls	the colour red				most obl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bulls barely see red; the moving cape makes them charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	barely	barely	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cape	det
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cape	amod
8	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	Bulls	red	barely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
2	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	make	present	the moving cape	Bulls = bull		tree rules
4	charge	infinitive	Bulls = bull not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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