Test 1 · ★★ · Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe…
«found a deer horn in the woods!!» What is it more likely to be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, be · To what, where: deer horn, woods
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 318 «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer» 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: «found a deer horn in the woods!!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horn | det |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horn | compound |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 woods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woods | det |
| 8 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | obl |
| 9 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | a deer horn | the woods | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Topic |
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 is it more likely to be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 likely | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 likely | nsubj |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 be | mark |
| 7 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 likely | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A deer's leg bone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 deer | det |
| 2 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 deer | case |
| 4 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | compound |
| 5 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A horn that fell off a cow that got lost in the woods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horn | det |
| 2 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 horn | acl:relcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 fell | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cow | det |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux:pass |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cow | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | past | a horn | a cow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | a cow | the woods | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 3
A tooth from a moose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tooth | det |
| 2 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 moose | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moose | det |
| 5 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tooth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A shed antler; deer drop their antlers every year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 antler | det |
| 2 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 antler | compound |
| 3 | antler | antler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 drop | punct |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drop | nsubj |
| 6 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 antler | acl:relcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 antlers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drop | obj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drop | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | deer | deer's antlers | year | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Theme |
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