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Test 11 · Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails,…

«the possum's dead, look, tongue out and stinks. chuck it in the bin?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: possum · What happens: look out, stink, chuck, be · To what, where: tongue, possum, bin

This is test 11 of lesson 249 «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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: «the possum's dead, look, tongue out and stinks. chuck it in the bin?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 possum	det
3	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 possum	case
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 possum	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 possum	punct
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tongue	punct
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
10	out	out	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stinks	cc
12	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 look	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
14	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 look	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chuck	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 bin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bin	det
18	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chuck	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look out in a quote	infinitive	the possum	tongue				out property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	stink in a quote	present	the possum not said here						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chuck in a quote	infinitive	the possum not said here	possum		the bin			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bin=Destination

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 · ← Mova's choice

It is asleep and just wants some food

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	3 asleep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wants	cc
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wants	advmod
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	conj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					asleep property	tree rules
2	want	present		some food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Leave it alone, it may be playing dead and will get up later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 playing	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 playing	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 playing	aux
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leave	parataxis
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 playing	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	play	may · progressive	it					dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get up	future	you not said here					late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It is certainly dead

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	4 dead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

It is pretending to be dead so that it can jump up and bite you

The tree, 15 words

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	3 pretending	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretending	aux
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 dead	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pretending	xcomp
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 jump	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jump	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 jump	aux
11	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretending	advcl
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 jump	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bite	cc
14	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretending	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	It						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						dead property	tree rules
3	jump up	can	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bite	present		you					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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