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Test 2 · ★ · Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattl…

In a cowboy film a rattlesnake buzzes before it strikes. What is the buzz really for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rattlesnake, buzz · What happens: buzz, strike, be · To what, where: cowboy film

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cowboy film a rattlesnake buzzes before it strikes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	compound
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buzzes	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rattlesnake	det
6	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buzzes	nsubj
7	buzzes	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 strikes	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 strikes	nsubj
10	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 buzzes	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 buzzes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	present	a rattlesnake			a cowboy film			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location
2	strike	present	rattlesnake						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 the buzz really for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buzz	det
4	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 for	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	4 buzz	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the buzz						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Telling the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund					time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Scaring mice out of holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scaring	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 holes	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 holes	case
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scaring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	gerund		mice		holes			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer

Option 3

Calling other snakes to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snakes	amod
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Calling	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 help	mark
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Calling	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			other snakes				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient
2	help	to-infinitive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Warning big animals not to step on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warning	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 step	csubj
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Warning	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 step	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 step	mark
6	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 step	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	gerund			big animals				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
2	not step	to-infinitive	Warning			it			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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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