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Test 5 · Horses, zebras and donkeys

Shrek's donkey never shuts up and cartoon donkeys are thick. What's true about real donkeys?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: donkey, cartoon donkeys · What happens: not shut up, be

This is test 5 of lesson 25 «Horses, zebras and donkeys» 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: Shrek's donkey never shuts up and cartoon donkeys are thick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shrek	Shrek	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 donkey	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Shrek	case
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shuts	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 shuts	advmod
5	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 shuts	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thick	cc
8	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 donkeys	compound
9	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thick	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thick	cop
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shuts	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shuts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shut up	present	Shrek's donkey						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	cartoon donkeys					thick 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.

Sentence 2: What's true about real donkeys?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 donkeys	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 donkeys	amod
6	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about real donkeys; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They are the least clever of all the animals on a farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clever	det
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 animals	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clever	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 farm	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 farm	det
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of all animals on a farm; clever property	tree rules

Option 2

They can't learn their own names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 names	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 names	amod
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	They	their own names					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		their = they						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are careful and stop when something seems unsafe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 careful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 careful	cop
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stop	cc
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 careful	conj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 seems	mark
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 seems	nsubj
8	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	advcl
9	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seems	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					careful property	tree rules
2	stop	present	They not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	seem	present	something					unsafe property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They follow anyone anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 follow	nsubj
2	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 follow	obj
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 follow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	They	anyone				anywhere property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=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.

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