Test 10 · ★★★ · Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and miss…

«my tailbone's useless, docs could just take it out» What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: useless docs · What happens: take out, be · To what, where: tailbone

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 280 «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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	_	10 take	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tailbone	nmod:poss
3	tailbone	tailbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 docs	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 tailbone	case
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 docs	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 useless	punct
7	docs	doc	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 take	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 closer	nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 closer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 closer	cop
16	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 truth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truth	det
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 closer	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out in a quote	could	my tailbone's useless docs	tailbone					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present						to the truth; close 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

It has no job at all

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 job	det
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 job	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no job		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is left from a tail but still anchors muscles

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 left	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tail	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 anchors	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 anchors	advmod
9	anchors	anchor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
10	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 anchors	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		It		a tail			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source from tail=Destination
2	anchor	present		muscles			still		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient

Option 3

It holds your spine up alone

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	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spine	nmod:poss
4	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 holds	compound:prt
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 holds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	present	It	your spine				alone property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spine=Theme

Option 4

It is the place where a new tail will grow one day

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 place	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 place	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 grow	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tail	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	amod
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	aux
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 place	acl:relcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the place					tree rules
2	grow	future	a new tail				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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