Test 1 · Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges

In a cartoon a beaver builds a cosy house with a hammer, nails and a saw. How does a real beaver build?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: beaver, real beaver · What happens: build · To what, where: cosy house, cartoon

This is test 1 of lesson 242 «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a beaver builds a cosy house with a hammer, nails and a saw.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beaver	det
5	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	nsubj
6	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hammer	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hammer	det
12	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nails	punct
14	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hammer	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 saw	det
17	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hammer	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 builds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	a beaver	a cosy house		a cartoon		with a hammer and nails and a saw	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme with hammer=Source

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.

Sentence 2: How does a real beaver build?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 build	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 build	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beaver	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beaver	amod
5	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 build	nsubj
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · do-support	a real beaver						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

The options

Option 1

With sticks glued together with honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	2 sticks	case
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sticks	acl
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 glued	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 honey	case
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	participle		sticks not said here				with honey; together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with honey=Instrument

Option 2

With hammers, saws and other tools it steals from people at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	2 hammers	case
2	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 steals	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saws	punct
4	saws	saw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hammers	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tools	cc
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tools	amod
7	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hammers	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 steals	nsubj
9	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 steals	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steals	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	it				night	with hammers and saws and other tools; from people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

With teeth, paws and mud, pushing sticks into the bottom and plastering them

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	2 teeth	case
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pushing	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paws	punct
4	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teeth	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mud	cc
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teeth	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 teeth	punct
8	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pushing	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 bottom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bottom	det
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plastering	cc
14	plastering	plaster	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 pushing	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 plastering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund		sticks		the bottom		with teeth and paws and mud	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme into bottom=Destination
2	plaster	gerund		sticks = stick					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

It digs a hole and never builds anything

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 digs	nsubj
2	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hole	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 digs	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 builds	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 builds	advmod
7	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 digs	conj
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 builds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	It	a hole					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
2	not build	present		anything					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anything=Product

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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