Test 10 · Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth

«cow's got big fangs like a lion, it's a big animal innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cow, lion · What happens: get, be · To what, where: big fangs, big animal innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 351 «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fangs	amod
6	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 lion	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lion	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fangs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 innit	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 innit	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 innit	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 innit	amod
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 innit	compound
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	cow	big fangs	like a lion	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	lion	a big animal innit		tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, a cow's fangs are even bigger than a lion's, because a cow is much heavier

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fangs	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cow	case
6	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bigger	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bigger	cop
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 bigger	advmod
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 lion	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lion	det
12	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bigger	obl
13	's	's	PART	_	12 lion	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heavier	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 heavier	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cow	det
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heavier	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 heavier	cop
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 heavier	advmod
20	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a cow's fangs					than a lion; big property	tree rules
2	is	present	a cow					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, a cow has no top front teeth, only a hard pad for pressing grass

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 teeth	det
7	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 teeth	amod
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 teeth	amod
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pad	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 pad	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pad	det
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pad	amod
14	pad	pad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 teeth	appos
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 pressing	mark
16	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 pad	acl
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a cow	no top front teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	press	gerund	a hard pad not said here	grass					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme

Option 3

Yes, all big animals have big fangs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animals	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fangs	amod
8	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all big animals	big fangs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, cows have no teeth at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 teeth	det
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	cows	no teeth		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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