Test 1 · ★ · Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattl…

«black mamba's black innit, it's in the name» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black innit, name · What happens: be · To what, where: name, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 322 «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» 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 innit	punct
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mamba	amod
3	mamba	mamba	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 innit	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mamba	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 innit	amod
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 name	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 name	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 name	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 name	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 truth	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 truth	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 name	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	black mamba's black innit			the name			tree rules
2	is a	present	the name	the truth					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

No, it is see-through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 through	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 through	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 through	cop
5	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 through	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 through	punct
7	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					thorough property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is grey or olive-brown; the black is the inside of its mouth

The tree, 14 words

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 grey	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	cop
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 brown	cc
5	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brown	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 olive	punct
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 inside	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 black	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 inside	amod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 inside	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 inside	det
13	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grey	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inside	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		grey property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	is a	present		the black inside	of inside's mouth	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, black as coal from nose to tail, which helps it hide at night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 coal	case
5	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 black	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 nose	case
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 black	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 tail	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 black	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 helps	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 helps	nsubj
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tail	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 helps	obj
14	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 helps	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	tail	tail					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	hide	infinitive	tail not said here				night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, it is bright green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 green	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 green	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 green	amod
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					green property	tree rules

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