Test 1 · ★★ · Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver

«octopus has 9 brains, saw it on TikTok» What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: octopus · What happens: have, see, be · To what, where: 9 brains, octopus, TikTok

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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 has	punct
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 brains	nummod
5	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 TikTok	case
10	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 closer	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 TikTok	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 closer	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 closer	cop
14	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 saw	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 truth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 closer	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	octopus	9 brains			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	see in a quote	past		octopus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present			TikTok	to the truth; close 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One main brain, plus big nerve bundles in each of the eight arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brain	nummod
2	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brain	amod
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bundles	punct
5	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	8 bundles	cc
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bundles	amod
7	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bundles	compound
8	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brain	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bundles	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 arms	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arms	det
13	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 arms	nummod
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 each	nmod

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

Option 2

One brain inside each of its three hearts, and nothing in the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brain	nummod
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 brain	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 hearts	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hearts	nmod:poss
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hearts	nummod
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 each	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nothing	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 brain	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	nmod

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

Option 3

Nine brains, all the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brains	nummod
2	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 size	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 size	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 size	amod
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brains	conj

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

Option 4

No brain, just arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arms	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 arms	advmod
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brain	conj

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

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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