Test 11 · ★ · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

«just caught a blue lobster mate, gonna cook it, it'll be blue on the plate» What will happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: catch, cook, be, happen · To what, where: blue lobster mate, mate, plate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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	_	3 caught	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 caught	advmod
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mate	det
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mate	amod
6	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mate	compound
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cook	punct
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 cook	dep
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mate	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cook	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blue	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 blue	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 blue	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 blue	cop
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 caught	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 plate	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 plate	det
19	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blue	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 blue	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 happen	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 happen	aux
23	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caught	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch in a quote	past		a blue lobster mate			tree rules
2	cook in a quote	infinitive		mate			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is in a quote	future	mate		the plate	blue property	tree rules
4	happen	future					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

It will turn green, like a cooked crab always does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crab	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 crab	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crab	det
8	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 crab	amod
9	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	parataxis
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 does	advmod
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crab	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It	green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	cook	participle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	do	present	a cooked crab not said here	always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It will stay bright blue on the plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	amod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 plate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plate	det
8	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	future	It			the plate		blue property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plate=Location

Option 3

It will turn white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It					white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It will turn red, like all cooked lobsters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lobsters	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 lobsters	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 lobsters	det
8	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lobsters	amod
9	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It					like all cooked lobsters; red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	cook	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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