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Test 9 · ★ · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor

Kai's sister says a cassowary is just a big fluffy bird and she wants a selfie with it. What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, cassowary, best answer · What happens: say, be, want · To what, where: big fluffy bird, selfie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Kai's sister says a cassowary is just a big fluffy bird and she wants a selfie with it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cassowary	det
6	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bird	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bird	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 bird	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
11	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wants	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wants	nsubj
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 selfie	det
17	selfie	selfie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wants	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wants	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Kai's sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a cassowary	a big fluffy bird					tree rules
3	want	present	sister	a selfie				with cassowary	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot selfie=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: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is safe, because flightless birds never fight anyone

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 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fight	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 fight	mark
6	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fight	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 fight	advmod
9	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	conj
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					safe property	tree rules
2	not fight	present	flightless birds	anyone					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent

Option 2

Fine, if she offers it some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 offers	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 offers	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 offers	nsubj
5	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 offers	obj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present	she	it					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal bread=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Keep well away: its dagger-like claw can badly hurt people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 hurt	punct
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 claw	nmod:poss
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dagger	punct
8	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 claw	amod
9	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurt	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux
11	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 hurt	advmod
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	imperative	you not said here					away, well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	can	its like claw	people				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

Option 4

Only run past it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 run	advmod
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 run	obl
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			it		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past it=Trajectory

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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