Test 4 · ★ · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor

«wicked, a red frog, gonna pick it up» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: red frog · What happens: pick up, be · To what, where: it, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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	_	2 wicked	punct
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frog	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frog	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frog	amod
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pick	punct
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 pick	dep
9	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 frog	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pick	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 pick	compound:prt
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 pick	punct
13	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 answer	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frog	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 frog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up in a quote	infinitive		it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	be speech: assert	present	a red frog and the best answer	the best answer					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

Only touch it with one finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 touch	advmod
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touch	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 finger	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 finger	nummod
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	imperative	you not said here	it				with one finger	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument

Option 2

Fine, all frogs are safe to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 frogs	det
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hold	mark
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all frogs					safe property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	all frogs not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Don't, never touch a wild brightly coloured frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 touch	punct
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 touch	advmod
5	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 frog	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frog	amod
8	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	9 coloured	advmod
9	coloured	colour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 frog	amod
10	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	imperative	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not touch	infinitive	you not said here	a wild coloured frog		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frog=Co-Theme
3	colour	participle			brightly property	tree rules

Option 4

Fine, just wash your hands well afterwards with soap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wash	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 wash	advmod
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fine	parataxis
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wash	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 wash	advmod
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 wash	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 soap	case
10	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	infinitive		your hands				with soap; afterwards, well property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument

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