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Test 9 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals

In a cartoon a lion eats grass with a cow. What do the teeth of a real lion tell you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion, teeth · What happens: eat, tell · To what, where: grass, cartoon, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 lion eats grass with a cow.

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 eats	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 cow	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a lion	grass		a cartoon		with a cow	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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: What do the teeth of a real lion tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 tell	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tell	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 lion	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lion	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lion	amod
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	nmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	the teeth of a real lion		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Flat grinding teeth show it is a plant-eater, like the cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
2	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eater	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eater	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eater	det
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eater	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 plant	punct
10	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cow	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 cow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cow	det
14	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eater	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	gerund							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	show	present	Flat grinding teeth						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	it	a plant eater and the cow					tree rules

Option 2

Lions have no teeth at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sharp meat-cutting teeth show it is a carnivore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cutting	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 meat	punct
4	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 teeth	compound
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carnivore	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 carnivore	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 carnivore	det
10	carnivore	carnivore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	show	present	Sharp cutting teeth						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	it	a carnivore					tree rules

Option 4

Its teeth show it eats only fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eats	nsubj
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 show	ccomp
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 fruit	advmod
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Its teeth						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present	it	fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

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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