Test 8 · Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, hudd…
«ugh that pink wrinkly rat thing is gross, prob dies young» What is true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ugh, prob · What happens: be, die · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 241 «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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 | _ | 2 ugh | punct |
| 2 | ugh | ugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gross | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gross | nsubj |
| 4 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 5 | wrinkly | wrinkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 6 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | compound |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gross | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gross | cop |
| 9 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dies | punct |
| 11 | prob | prob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dies | nsubj |
| 12 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gross | parataxis |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dies | xcomp |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 dies | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 true | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 true | cop |
| 17 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dies | parataxis |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 gross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | ugh | gross property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | present | prob | young property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | 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 · ✓ the right answer
No, naked mole rats can live over 30 years and rarely get cancer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rats | amod |
| 4 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rats | compound |
| 5 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | aux |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 12 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | conj |
| 14 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | naked mole rats | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | naked mole rats not said here | cancer | rarely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cancer=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yes, they die very quickly if they ever see daylight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 die | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 die | advmod |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | advcl |
| 11 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | they | quickly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | they | daylight | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yes, they live only a few weeks, just as most other small rodents do
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 weeks | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 weeks | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weeks | amod |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 rodents | amod |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rodents | amod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rodents | amod |
| 15 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | they | week | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | most other small rodents | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
No, they often live for about 300 years, longer than tortoises
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 300 | advmod |
| 8 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 longer | punct |
| 11 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 live | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 tortoises | case |
| 13 | tortoises | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 longer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | they | year | often property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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