Test 12 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…
A chick is ready to hatch but has not cracked the shell yet. Where does it take its first breath?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chick · What happens: be, hatch, not crack, take · To what, where: shell, chick
This is test 12 of lesson 342 «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» 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: A chick is ready to hatch but has not cracked the shell yet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chick | det |
| 2 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hatch | mark |
| 6 | hatch | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 cracked | cc |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cracked | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 cracked | advmod |
| 10 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ready | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shell | det |
| 12 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cracked | obj |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 cracked | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a chick | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hatch | to-infinitive | a chick not said here | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not crack | present · perfect | a chick not said here | the shell | yet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=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: Where does it take its first breath?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | expl |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breath | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 breath | amod |
| 7 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | chick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
From the air pocket at the blunt end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 pocket | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pocket | det |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pocket | compound |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root | ||
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 7 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | amod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pocket | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Through a little hole it bites in the side of the shell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 hole | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hole | amod |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bites | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bites | nsubj |
| 6 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bites | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shell | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shell | det |
| 12 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | hole | a little hole | in the side of the shell | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through hole=Location |
Option 3
It does not breathe until it is out
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 | 4 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 breathe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 breathe | advmod |
| 4 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 out | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 out | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 out | cop |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 breathe | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not breathe | present · do-support | It | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | out property | tree rules |
Option 4
From the yolk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 yolk | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 yolk | det |
| 3 | yolk | yolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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