Test 11 · ★ · Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they…

«why's a snake shivering, it's cold-blooded innit» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, best answer · What happens: be · To what, where: snake shivering, blooded innit

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 321 «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» 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	_	6 shivering	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 shivering	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shivering	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shivering	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shivering	compound
6	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 innit	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 innit	cop
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blooded	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
12	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 innit	amod
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shivering	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 innit	nmod
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	_	6 shivering	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a snake shivering and blooded innit	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	blooded innit	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer	a snake shivering and blooded innit	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 · ← Mova's choice

Snakes never move their muscles at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 move	advmod
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 muscles	nmod:poss
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	Snakes	Snakes's muscles		all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme

Option 2

It is scared of the eggs

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 scared	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eggs	det
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

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

Option 3

Snakes shiver only when they are ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shiver	nsubj
2	shiver	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 ill	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 ill	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ill	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shiver	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	present	Snakes						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	Snakes = snake					ill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A python mother twitches her muscles to warm her eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mother	det
2	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	compound
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twitches	nsubj
4	twitches	twitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 muscles	nmod:poss
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 twitches	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 warm	mark
8	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 twitches	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eggs	nmod:poss
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twitch	present	a python mother	mother's muscles					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient
2	warm	to-infinitive	a python mother not said here	mother's eggs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

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