Test 10 · ★★★ · Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping…

«insects are just small, nothing tiny is a record breaker» Which tiny animal breaks the record for body lengths a second?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: insects, nothing, tiny animal · What happens: be, break · To what, where: record breaker

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 365 «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» 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	_	5 small	punct
2	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 breaker	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 breaker	nsubj
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 breaker	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 breaker	det
11	record	record	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 breaker	amod
12	breaker	breaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 small	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 breaker	punct
14	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 breaks	obj
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animal	amod
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 breaks	nsubj
17	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 breaker	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 record	det
19	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 breaks	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 lengths	case
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lengths	compound
22	lengths	length	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 record	nmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 second	det
24	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lengths	nmod:unmarked
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	insects		small property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	nothing	a record breaker		tree rules
3	break	present	tiny animal	a record breaker		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Patient record=Result

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

No tiny animal, only the cheetah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 animal	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cheetah	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 cheetah	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cheetah	det
7	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animal	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The elephant on the savannah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 savannah	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 savannah	det
5	savannah	savannah	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 elephant	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The tortoise, slow but steady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tortoise	amod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 steady	cc
6	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A tiny mite in California

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mite	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mite	amod
3	mite	mite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 California	case
5	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mite	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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