Test 9 · ★★ · Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monk…

«leopards in a city?? that's fake, cities are only for people» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leopards, cities · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 368 «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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	_	2 leopards	punct
2	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fake	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 city	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leopards	nmod
6	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 leopards	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fake	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fake	cop
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 people	punct
11	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 people	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 people	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 people	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 people	case
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fake	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 people	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fake	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	leopards in a city	fake property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	cities	for people	tree rules
3	is	present		true 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 · ← Mova's choice

Leopards live only in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 zoos	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 zoos	case
5	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Leopards			zoos			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Around 50 leopards live in a national park inside Mumbai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADV	_	2 50	advmod
2	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 leopards	nummod
3	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 park	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 park	det
7	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 park	amod
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 Mumbai	case
10	Mumbai	Mumbai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 park	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	50 leopards			a national park inside Mumbai			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location

Option 3

Only in cartoons and films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 cartoons	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 cartoons	case
3	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 films	cc
5	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cartoons	conj

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

Option 4

No leopard has ever been near a city, they only live in jungles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 leopard	det
2	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 city	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 city	cop
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 live	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 live	advmod
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 jungles	case
14	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	no leopard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle		a city	ever	tree rules
3	live	present	they	jungles		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location

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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