Test 8 · Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas,…

«pangolin scales cure illness, my uncle read it» What would you answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pangolin scales, uncle, you · What happens: cure, read, answer · To what, where: illness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 366 «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 cure	punct
2	pangolin	pangolin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scales	compound
3	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cure	nsubj
4	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cure	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 uncle	nmod:poss
8	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 read	nsubj
9	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cure	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 read	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 cure	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 answer	obj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 answer	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 answer	nsubj
15	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cure	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cure in a quote	present	pangolin scales	illness	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source
2	read in a quote	past	my uncle	illness	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	would	you		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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, but only if they are eaten raw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 eaten	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 eaten	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 eaten	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eaten	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eaten	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive		they				raw property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Yes, they cure every illness if you grind them to powder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cure	nsubj
4	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 illness	det
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cure	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 grind	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 grind	nsubj
9	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cure	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grind	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 powder	mark
12	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grind	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cure	present	they	every illness	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source
2	grind a condition, not said to happen	present	you	them = they	tree rules
3	powder	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, they are made of poison and make you ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 poison	case
7	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		they				of poison	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	make	infinitive		you				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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

The scales are only keratin, like fingernails, and cure nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scales	det
2	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keratin	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keratin	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 keratin	advmod
5	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fingernails	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 fingernails	case
8	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keratin	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cure	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cure	cc
11	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keratin	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the scales	keratin and fingernails					tree rules
2	cure	infinitive	the scales not said here	nothing					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer nothing=Source

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