Test 10 · More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' bed…
A young orangutan is four years old. Who does it most likely live with?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young orangutan · What happens: be, live
This is test 10 of lesson 245 «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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: A young orangutan is four years old.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 orangutan | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 orangutan | amod |
| 3 | orangutan | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 old | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | cop |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a young orangutan | year | old 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.
Sentence 2: Who does it most likely live with?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 live | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 live | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · do-support | likely property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Its mother, who teaches it nest skills
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 | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teaches | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 teaches | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 teaches | nsubj |
| 5 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 teaches | obj |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skills | compound |
| 8 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 teaches | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Its mother | nest skills | it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient skill=Topic |
Option 2
Alone in its own tree from the day it is born
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 tree | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tree | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 day | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · passive | the day not said here | tree | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
Zookeepers only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zookeepers | zookeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Zookeepers | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A big group of male orangutans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 group | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 group | amod |
| 3 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 orangutans | case |
| 5 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 orangutans | amod |
| 6 | orangutans | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 group | nmod |
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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