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Test 1 · Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour

In a Tom and Jerry style cartoon, a porcupine shoots quills like arrows and Tom gets stuck full of them from far away. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: porcupine, Tom · What happens: shoot, get, be · To what, where: quills, style cartoon

This is test 1 of lesson 248 «Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour» 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 Tom and Jerry style cartoon, a porcupine shoots quills like arrows and Tom gets stuck full of them from far away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	7 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cartoon	det
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 style	compound
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Jerry	cc
5	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tom	conj
6	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cartoon	compound
7	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoots	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cartoon	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 porcupine	det
10	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoots	nsubj
11	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shoots	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 arrows	case
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 quills	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gets	cc
16	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 gets	nsubj
17	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shoots	conj
18	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 full	amod
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gets	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 full	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 far	case
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 away	advmod
24	away	away	ADV	_	17 gets	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shoots	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	a porcupine	quills		a style cartoon		like arrows	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent quill=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	get	present	Tom					away, full property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Porcupines can fire their quills more than a hundred metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fire	aux
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Porcupines	conj
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 quills	nmod:poss
5	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Porcupines	conj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 hundred	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hundred	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 metres	nummod
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Porcupines	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Porcupines shoot quills only at cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoot	nsubj
2	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoot	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 cats	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	Porcupines	quills				at cats	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent quill=Theme at cat=Destination

Option 3

Porcupines have no quills at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 quills	det
4	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Porcupines	no quills		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Porcupines cannot shoot quills, they come out when touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shoot	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 shoot	advmod
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shoot	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	parataxis
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 touched	advmod
11	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shoot	can	Porcupines	quills					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Theme
2	come out	present	Porcupines = porcupine					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	touch	participle	Porcupines = porcupine not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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