Test 7 · ★★ · Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver

«gross, its blood is blue, is it ill» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: blood, gross, ill · What happens: be · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	11 ill	punct
2	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ill	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 blue	punct
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 blood	nmod:poss
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blue	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	cop
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gross	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gross	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ill	nsubj
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 answer	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 ill	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 answer	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	gross's blood		blue property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	gross		ill property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present	ill	the 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

It is cold and frozen

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	3 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 frozen	cc
5	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cold property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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

No, its blood uses copper, which makes it blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 uses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 uses	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 blood	nmod:poss
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	nsubj
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 copper	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	its blood	copper					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Patient
2	make	present	copper	copper				blue property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3

Yes, blue blood means it is very ill and needs a vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 blue	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blood	amod
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ill	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ill	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 ill	advmod
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 needs	cc
11	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 vet	det
13	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	blue blood			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	blood		ill property	tree rules
3	need	present	blue blood not said here	a vet		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 4

It drank ink

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 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	It	ink					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Patient

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