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Test 8 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

In a cartoon a cuckoo spits froth onto the plants. What really makes cuckoo spit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cuckoo · What happens: spit, make · To what, where: froth, cartoon, cuckoo spit

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 cartoon a cuckoo spits froth onto the plants.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spits	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cuckoo	det
5	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spits	nsubj
6	spits	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	froth	froth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spits	obj
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	10 plants	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plants	det
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spits	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	a cuckoo	froth		a cartoon		onto the plants	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent froth=Theme onto plant=Destination

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 really makes cuckoo spit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 makes	obj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spit	compound
5	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		cuckoo spit					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary spit=Product

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A young froghopper hiding in froth it makes itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 froghopper	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 froghopper	amod
3	froghopper	froghopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
4	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 froghopper	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 froth	case
6	froth	froth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	a young froghopper not said here			froth			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in froth=Location
2	make	present	a young froghopper	froghopper					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset itself=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A real cuckoo, just as in the cartoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cuckoo	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cuckoo	amod
3	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 as	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 as	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	3 cuckoo	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cartoon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cartoon	det
9	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 as	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Raindrops beaten by the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raindrops	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Raindrops	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beaten	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	participle		Raindrops not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A frog that lives on the plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 frog	acl:relcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 plant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plant	det
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a frog			the plant			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plant=Location

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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