Test 4 · ★★★ · Snakes and lizards

A cartoon chameleon turns tartan on a picnic blanket to hide. What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon chameleon, truth · What happens: turn, hide, be · To what, where: tartan, picnic blanket

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: A cartoon chameleon turns tartan on a picnic blanket to hide.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chameleon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chameleon	compound
3	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tartan	tartan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 blanket	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blanket	det
8	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blanket	compound
9	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hide	mark
11	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 blanket	acl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a cartoon chameleon	tartan		a picnic blanket			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive	a cartoon chameleon not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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's the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Chameleons can copy any pattern they sit on, even tartan and spots and stripes

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copy	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 copy	aux
3	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 pattern	det
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copy	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sit	nsubj
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pattern	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 sit	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tartan	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 tartan	advmod
11	tartan	tartan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copy	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spots	cc
13	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tartan	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stripes	cc
15	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	can	Chameleons	any pattern				tartan and spots and stripes obl	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
2	sit on	present	Chameleons = chameleon	any pattern not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pattern=Theme

Option 2

Chameleons are always green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 green	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 green	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 green	advmod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chameleons change colour mostly for mood and temperature, not to hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 change	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 mood	case
6	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 temperature	cc
8	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mood	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hide	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hide	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Chameleons	colour				for mood and temperature; mostly property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent colour=Theme for mood=Co-Theme
2	not hide	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Chameleons change colour only when asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 asleep	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 asleep	mark
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 change	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Chameleons	colour					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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