Test 4 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…
He cracks a brown egg and a blue egg and looks at the inside of the shells. What does he see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: He · What happens: crack, look, see · To what, where: brown egg
This is test 4 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: He cracks a brown egg and a blue egg and looks at the inside of the shells.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cracks | nsubj |
| 2 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 egg | det |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 egg | amod |
| 5 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cracks | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 egg | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 egg | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 egg | amod |
| 9 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 egg | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looks | cc |
| 11 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cracks | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 inside | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inside | det |
| 14 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looks | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shells | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shells | det |
| 17 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 inside | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cracks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | present | He | a brown egg and a blue egg | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | He not said here | at the inside of the shells | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at inside=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 does he see?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both are white inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 white | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 white | cop |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 white | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Both | inside, white property | tree rules |
Option 2
Both are brown inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 brown | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brown | cop |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 brown | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Both | brown, inside property | tree rules |
Option 3
The blue one is white inside and the brown one brown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 white | cop |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 5 white | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brown | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brown | det |
| 9 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brown | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brown | compound |
| 11 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the blue one | inside, white property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The brown shell is often white inside, the blue one is blue inside too
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shell | det |
| 2 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shell | amod |
| 3 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 white | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 white | cop |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 white | advmod |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 white | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blue | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blue | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 blue | cop |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 white | conj |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 13 blue | advmod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 blue | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the brown shell | inside, often, white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the blue one | blue, inside property | tree rules |
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