Test 2 · The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life

In a cartoon about the body, cells are little people with faces who chat and argue. What is true about real cells?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cells, little people · What happens: be, chat, argue · To what, where: little people

This is test 2 of lesson 256 «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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: In a cartoon about the body, cells are little people with faces who chat and argue.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cartoon	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 people	cop
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cartoon	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 faces	case
13	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 chat	nsubj
15	chat	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 people	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 argue	cc
17	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 chat	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cells	little people	with faces	tree rules
2	chat speech: other	present	little people			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	argue speech: disagree	present	little people not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 true about real cells?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	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 cells	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cells	amod
6	cells	cell	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 cells; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They have no faces or brains, but each kind has its own job

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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 faces	det
4	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 brains	cc
6	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 faces	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 has	cc
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 job	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 job	amod
14	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	They	no faces or brains	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	have	present	each kind	kind's own job	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient
3	job		kind		nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

They talk to each other in little words, just like people do at work

The tree, 14 words

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 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 talk	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 words	case
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 work	case
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	They			little words		to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent
2	do	present	people			work			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are all exactly the same

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	6 same	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					all, exactly, same property	tree rules

Option 4

They wear tiny uniforms for their jobs

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 wear	nsubj
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 uniforms	amod
4	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 jobs	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 jobs	nmod:poss
7	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	They	tiny uniforms				for uniforms's jobs	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme
2	job		uniforms = uniform						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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