Test 11 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…
«they cloned a ferret?? from what» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: clone, be · To what, where: ferret
This is test 11 of lesson 282 «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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 | _ | 3 cloned | punct |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cloned | nsubj |
| 3 | cloned | clone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ferret | det |
| 5 | ferret | ferret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloned | obj |
| 6 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cloned | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cloned | obl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 right | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 right | cop |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cloned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clone in a quote | past | they | a ferret | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | 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
From a ferret's tooth found in a cave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 tooth | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ferret | det |
| 3 | ferret | ferret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 ferret | case |
| 5 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tooth | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | a ferret's tooth not said here | a cave | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
From a toy ferret
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 ferret | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ferret | det |
| 3 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ferret | compound |
| 4 | ferret | ferret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
From cells frozen in 1988
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 cells | case |
| 2 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cells | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1988 | case |
| 5 | 1988 | 1988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 frozen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | cells not said here | 1988 | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
From a cat's DNA
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 DNA | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 DNA | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cat | case |
| 5 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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