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Test 3 · ★★★ · Snakes and lizards

My cousin found 8 rings on a rattle and says the snake is 8 years old. Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, snake · What happens: find, say, be · To what, where: 8 rings, rattle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Snakes and lizards» 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: My cousin found 8 rings on a rattle and says the snake is 8 years old.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 rings	nummod
5	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rattle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rattle	det
8	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snake	det
12	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 old	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 old	cop
14	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 old	obl:unmarked
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 says	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	My cousin	8 rings		a rattle			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	My cousin not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the snake				year	old property	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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	snake					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, one ring grows each birthday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grows	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ring	nummod
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	nsubj
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 birthday	det
7	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	one ring	each birthday					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location birthday=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only for desert rattlesnakes, as they grow one a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 grow	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 rattlesnakes	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 rattlesnakes	case
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rattlesnakes	compound
7	rattlesnakes	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grow	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 grow	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grow	nsubj
11	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 grow	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	desert rattlesnakes	one			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme

Option 3

No, rattles have no rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	rattles	rattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 rings	det
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a ring is added at each shed, and snakes shed more than once a year

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 added	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 added	aux:pass
6	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 shed	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 shed	det
9	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shed	cc
12	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shed	nsubj
13	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 added	conj
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 shed	obj
15	than	than	ADP	_	14 more	fixed
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 shed	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 year	det
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present · passive		a ring		each shed			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	shed	past	snakes	more				once property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Source

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