Test 6 · ★★★ · Snakes and lizards

gross a snake skin!! does that mean the snake's dead?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, that · What happens: gross, mean · To what, where: snake skin

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	gross	gross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skin	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	compound
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gross	obj
5	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mean	nsubj
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 gross	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snake	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 snake	case
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mean	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 gross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gross	imperative	you not said here	a snake skin					tree rules
2	mean	present · do-support	that						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.

The options

Option 1

No, it's a skin a bird left there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 skin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 skin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 skin	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nmod:poss
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bird	acl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a skin					tree rules
2	leave	participle		a skin's bird not said here		there			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, snakes shed only when they die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shed	nsubj
4	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 die	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 die	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 die	nsubj
8	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	past	snakes						tree rules
2	die	present	snakes = snake						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it's all that's left of a snake that died here last week

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 left	det:predet
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 left	nsubj:pass
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 snake	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snake	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 died	nsubj
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 snake	acl:relcl
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 died	advmod
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 week	amod
16	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		it				of a snake; leave property	tree rules
2	die	past	a snake			here	week		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it shed its old skin and grew a new one under it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 shed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shed	nsubj
4	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skin	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shed	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	past	it	its old skin					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source
2	grow	past		a new one		skin			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme

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