Test 3 · ★★ · Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver

«it's a squishy blob, how's it smarter than my hamster» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, blob, best answer · What happens: be · To what, where: squishy blob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	_	6 blob	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blob	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blob	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blob	det
5	squishy	squishy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blob	amod
6	blob	blob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smarter	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 smarter	advmod
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 smarter	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smarter	nsubj
11	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 blob	parataxis
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 hamster	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hamster	nmod:poss
14	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smarter	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 smarter	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 smarter	parataxis
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 blob	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	a squishy blob		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	blob		than my hamster; smart property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer	a squishy blob		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

It solves puzzles, uses tools and escapes tanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 solves	nsubj
2	solves	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 solves	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 uses	punct
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 solves	conj
6	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uses	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 escapes	cc
8	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 solves	conj
9	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 escapes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	solve	present	It	puzzles	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic
2	use	present		tools	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient
3	escape	present		tanks	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tank=Initial_Location

Option 2

Its whole squishy blob is one giant brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 blob	nmod:poss
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blob	amod
3	squishy	squishy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blob	amod
4	blob	blob	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brain	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 brain	cop
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brain	nummod
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brain	amod
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Its whole squishy blob	one giant brain					tree rules

Option 3

It is not, octopuses are not clever at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clever	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 clever	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 clever	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 not	punct
5	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clever	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 clever	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It			all		clever property	tree rules

Option 4

It copies the hamster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copies	nsubj
2	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hamster	det
4	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	It	the hamster					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=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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