Test 1 · Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and y…
In Tom and Jerry, Jerry nibbles a wedge of yellow cheese full of round holes. What is wrong with the cartoon?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jerry · What happens: nibble, be · To what, where: wedge, Tom
This is test 1 of lesson 341 «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» 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 Tom and Jerry, Jerry nibbles a wedge of yellow cheese full of round holes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Tom | case |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nibbles | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Jerry | cc |
| 4 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tom | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tom | punct |
| 6 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nibbles | nsubj |
| 7 | nibbles | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wedge | det |
| 9 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nibbles | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cheese | case |
| 11 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cheese | amod |
| 12 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wedge | nmod |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cheese | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 holes | case |
| 15 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 holes | amod |
| 16 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nibbles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nibble | present | Jerry | a wedge of yellow cheese | Tom and Jerry | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedge=Patient |
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 wrong with the cartoon?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cartoon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cartoon | det |
| 6 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrong | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with the cartoon; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Cheese with holes is not real cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cheese | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 holes | case |
| 3 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cheese | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cheese | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cheese | advmod |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheese | amod |
| 7 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Cheese with holes | real cheese | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Cheese holes are made by mice eating it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 holes | compound |
| 2 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 mice | case |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mice | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 eating | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | mice | Cheese holes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | mice not said here | it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Most cheeses, like cheddar, have no holes; only a few like Emmental do
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 cheeses | amod |
| 2 | cheeses | cheese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheddar | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 cheddar | case |
| 5 | cheddar | cheddar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cheeses | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cheeses | punct |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 holes | det |
| 9 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 few | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 few | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 Emmental | case |
| 15 | Emmental | Emmental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 few | nmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Most cheeses and cheddar | no holes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | present | a few like Emmental | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nothing is wrong, because every kind of cheese has holes right through it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cheese | case |
| 9 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | conj |
| 11 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 12 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 it | advmod |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 has | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | every kind of cheese | holes | cheese | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
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