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Test 8 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals

A wasp is bright yellow and black. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wasp · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A wasp is bright yellow and black.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wasp	det
2	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yellow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 yellow	cop
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yellow	amod
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 black	cc
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yellow	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 yellow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a wasp					yellow property	tree rules
2	be		a wasp not said here						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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It keeps the wasp cool

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wasp	det
4	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the wasp				cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wasp=Theme

Option 2

It helps it hide in the dark

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 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	it					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	hide	infinitive				the dark			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a warning colour that says «I sting»

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	5 colour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 colour	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colour	compound
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	acl:relcl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 sting	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sting	nsubj
10	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 sting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a warning colour					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a warning colour						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sting in a quote	present	a warning colour = colour						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It is camouflage among green leaves

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 camouflage	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 camouflage	cop
3	camouflage	camouflage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 leaves	case
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaves	amod
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 camouflage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	camouflage				among green leaves	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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