Test 1 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…
«there's prints in the snow, dead straight line, little claws, 4 toes. the cat?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cat
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 336 «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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: «there's prints in the snow, dead straight line, little claws, 4 toes. the cat?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cat | cop |
| 4 | prints | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 's | nsubj | |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snow | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prints | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 line | punct |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prints | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 claws | punct |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 claws | amod |
| 14 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prints | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 toes | punct |
| 16 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 toes | nummod |
| 17 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prints | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cat | det |
| 20 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 cat | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 cat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the cat | 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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A pigeon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pigeon | det |
| 2 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Probably a fox; a cat's print shows no claw marks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 fox | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 print | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 cat | case |
| 8 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | nsubj | ||
| 9 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 marks | det |
| 11 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marks | compound |
| 12 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a fox | no claw marks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mark=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | a cat | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
A hedgehog walking on tiptoe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hedgehog | det |
| 2 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hedgehog | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 tiptoe | case |
| 5 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | a hedgehog not said here | tiptoe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tiptoe=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Definitely the cat, cats always walk in straight lines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 3 cat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cat | punct |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 walk | advmod |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lines | case |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lines | amod |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | cats | the cat | straight lines | always property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory |
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