Test 9 · Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour

«my mum reckons that pangolin is a pine cone with legs lol» What is it really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, pangolin · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: pine cone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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 reckons	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 cone	mark
6	pangolin	pangolin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cone	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cone	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cone	det
9	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cone	compound
10	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 legs	case
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cone	nmod
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckons	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 What	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	15 What	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	my mum			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	pangolin	a pine cone	with legs	tree rules
3	is a	present	pangolin			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 · ← Mova's choice

A baby armadillo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 armadillo	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 armadillo	compound
3	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A kind of lizard with feathers that lives in the trees of Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 lizard	case
4	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lives	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 trees	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a kind of lizard with feathers			the trees of Africa			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A mammal with keratin scales that rolls up in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mammal	det
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 scales	case
4	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scales	compound
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mammal	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rolls	nsubj
7	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scales	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 rolls	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll up	present	keratin scales			danger			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in danger=Trajectory

Option 4

A walking plant with green leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plant	det
2	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	compound
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 leaves	case
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaves	amod
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plant	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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