Test 9 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conser…

«tomato's a veg, my mum said, end of story» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tomato, mum, best answer · What happens: be, say · To what, where: veg, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 300 «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 veg	punct
2	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 veg	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 veg	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 veg	det
5	veg	veg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 veg	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 end	punct
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 story	case
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 end	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	ccomp
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 veg	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	tomato	a veg	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my mum	end of story	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent end=Topic
3	is a	present	the best answer	a veg	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.

The options

Option 1

Your mum is wrong, it is a root that grows under the soil like a carrot

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 root	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 root	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 root	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 root	det
9	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	appos
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 root	acl:relcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 soil	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soil	det
14	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	obl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 carrot	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 carrot	det
17	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your mum			wrong property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a root			tree rules
3	grow	present	a root		the soil	like a carrot	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under soil=Location

Option 2

It is neither, it is a mushroom

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	8 mushroom	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mushroom	cop
3	neither	neither	ADV	_	8 mushroom	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 neither	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mushroom	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mushroom	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mushroom	det
8	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mushroom				neither property	tree rules

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

Cooks call it a vegetable, but botanists call it a fruit, as it holds seeds

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vegetable	det
5	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 call	cc
8	botanists	botanist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fruit	det
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 holds	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 holds	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 holds	nsubj
16	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	parataxis
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	Cooks	it	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	call	present	botanists	vegetable	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	hold	present	vegetable	seeds	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme

Option 4

It is a nut, actually

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	4 nut	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nut	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nut	det
4	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nut	punct
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 nut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a nut				actually property	tree rules

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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