Test 6 · Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails,…
«camel's got 2 humps so it's got double water innit» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: camel · What happens: get, be · To what, where: 2 humps · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 humps | nummod |
| 6 | humps | hump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 innit | amod |
| 11 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 innit | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 innit | compound |
| 13 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 right | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 right | cop |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | parataxis |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · passive | camel | 2 humps | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · passive | camel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | right 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, humps store fat, not water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 store | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 store | punct |
| 3 | humps | hump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 store | nsubj |
| 4 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 store | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 water | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 water | advmod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | humps | fat and water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, each hump is a water tank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 tank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 hump | det |
| 4 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tank | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tank | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tank | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tank | compound |
| 8 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | each hump | a water tank | tree rules |
Option 3
No, humps are full of air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 full | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | humps | hump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | humps | of air; full property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, one water and one milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 water | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 water | nummod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 milk | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 milk | nummod |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | conj |
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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