Test 11 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals
In a cartoon a sloth hangs from the treetops and never comes down. In which layer does it live?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sloth · What happens: hang, not come down, live · To what, where: cartoon, layer
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 298 «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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 a sloth hangs from the treetops and never comes down.
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 | 6 hangs | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sloth | det |
| 5 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hangs | nsubj |
| 6 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 treetops | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 treetops | det |
| 9 | treetops | treetop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hangs | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 comes | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 comes | advmod |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hangs | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 comes | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hangs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | a sloth | a cartoon | from the treetops | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | not come down | present | a sloth not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: In which layer does it live?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 layer | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 layer | det |
| 3 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · do-support | sloth | which layer | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in layer=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The tree roots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roots | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roots | compound |
| 3 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The canopy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canopy | det |
| 2 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The river bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bed | compound |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The forest floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floor | compound |
| 3 | floor | floor | 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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