Test 5 · ★★★ · Snakes and lizards

Why does a snake's tongue look scary even though it can't hurt you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tongue · What happens: look, not hurt · To what, where: you

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 look	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tongue	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 snake	case
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	even	even	ADV	_	14 hurt	advmod
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 hurt	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hurt	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hurt	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hurt	advmod
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 look	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hurt	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	a snake's tongue					scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not hurt	can	tongue	you					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It can grab your finger

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 grab	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grab	aux
3	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 finger	nmod:poss
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	can	It	your finger					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme

Option 2

It burns your skin like a nettle sting

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	2 burns	nsubj
2	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skin	nmod:poss
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 sting	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sting	det
7	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sting	compound
8	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	It	your skin				like a nettle sting	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It isn't a sting; it is only for smelling

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	5 sting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sting	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sting	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sting	det
5	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 smelling	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smelling	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 smelling	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 smelling	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 smelling	case
11	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	a sting					tree rules
2	is	present	sting					smell property	tree rules

Option 4

It is full of venom

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 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 venom	case
5	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of venom; full property	tree rules

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