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Test 12 · ★ · Nuts, beans, seeds and spices

In a cartoon, a squirrel cracks a fresh cashew in its shell and munches it. What would happen in real life?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: squirrel · What happens: crack, munch, happen · To what, where: fresh cashew, cartoon, squirrel, real life

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 348 «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 squirrel cracks a fresh cashew in its shell and munches it.

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	7 cracks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squirrel	det
6	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cracks	nsubj
7	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cashew	det
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cashew	amod
10	cashew	cashew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cracks	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 shell	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shell	nmod:poss
13	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cracks	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 munches	cc
15	munches	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cracks	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 munches	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cracks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	present	a squirrel	a fresh cashew		a cartoon		in squirrel's shell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cashew=Theme
2	munch	present	a squirrel not said here	squirrel					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 would happen in real life?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				real life			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location

The options

Option 1

The squirrel would grow a cashew tree inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squirrel	det
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	cashew	cashew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the squirrel	a cashew tree				inside property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, cashew shells are sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 shells	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cashew	cashew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shells	compound
4	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sweet	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sweet	cop
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing cashew shells					sweet property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The oily shell would burn its mouth and skin

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	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shell	amod
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	aux
5	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 skin	cc
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	would	the oily shell	shell's mouth and skin					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme

Option 4

The cashew would explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cashew	det
2	cashew	cashew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 explode	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 explode	aux
4	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	would	the cashew						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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