Test 5 · Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour

«dog got sprayed by a skunk, dump tomato juice on him» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skunk · What happens: spray, dump, be · To what, where: dog, tomato juice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 sprayed	punct
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprayed	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprayed	aux:pass
4	sprayed	spray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 true	csubj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 skunk	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 skunk	det
7	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprayed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dump	punct
9	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sprayed	conj
10	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 juice	compound
11	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dump	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dump	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 sprayed	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	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spray in a quote	past · passive	a skunk	dog		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination
2	dump in a quote	infinitive	a skunk not said here	tomato juice	on dog	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent juice=Theme on he=Trajectory
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

Tomato juice makes the dog spray back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomato	tomato	PART	_	2 juice	mark
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	spray	spray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 spray	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	juice	the dog					tree rules
2	spray back	infinitive	the dog not said here						vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tomato juice does not really wash the smell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomato	tomato	PART	_	2 juice	mark
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wash	advcl
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wash	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wash	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 wash	advmod
6	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smell	det
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wash	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	6 wash	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wash off	present · do-support		the smell					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient

Option 3

Tomato juice removes all of the smell at once, after one bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomato	tomato	PART	_	3 removes	mark
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	nsubj
3	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 removes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 smell	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smell	det
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 removes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bath	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 bath	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 bath	nummod
13	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	present	juice	all			after one bath		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Tomato juice makes it smell of roses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomato	tomato	PART	_	3 makes	mark
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 roses	case
7	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	juice	it					tree rules
2	smell	infinitive						of roses	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of rose=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour/t5/