Test 8 · The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and ot…

«a slime mould solved a maze? it doesn't even have a brain lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: slime mould, mould · What happens: solve, not have, be · To what, where: maze, brain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 259 «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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	_	5 solved	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mould	det
3	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mould	compound
4	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solved	nsubj
5	solved	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maze	det
7	maze	maze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solved	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 solved	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 have	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 solved	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 brain	det
15	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 solved	discourse
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 solved	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 solved	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 solved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	solve in a quote	past	a slime mould	a maze		tree rules
2	not have in a quote	present · do-support	mould	a brain		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
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

No, it had a tiny hidden brain inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brain	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brain	amod
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brain	amod
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	a tiny hidden brain		brain			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, with no brain at all it still found the shortest way to food

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brain	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 brain	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 brain	det
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 brain	nmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 food	case
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	no brain at all	the shortest way			still	to food	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 3

No, the scientists drew the path on it themselves with a pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 drew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scientists	det
4	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 path	nmod
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 path	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 pen	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pen	det
13	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the scientists	the path scientists		path		with a pen	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent path=Theme on it=Destination

Option 4

Yes, because it is really a clever worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 worm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worm	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 worm	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worm	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 worm	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	9 worm	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 worm	det
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 worm	amod
9	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a clever worm					tree rules

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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