Test 12 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…
A cricket's song is coming from the grass. Where are its ears?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: song, cricket, ears · What happens: come, sing, be · To what, where: grass
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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
Sentence 1: A cricket's song is coming from the grass.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cricket | det |
| 2 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 cricket | case |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | aux |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grass | det |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | a cricket's song | the grass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from grass=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sing | a cricket | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Sentence 2: Where are its ears?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | grass's ears | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
On its front legs, below the knees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 legs | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 legs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 legs | amod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knees | punct |
| 6 | below | below | ADP | _ | 8 knees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knees | det |
| 8 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
On its wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 wings | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
It has no ears at all
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 | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 ears | det |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ears | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | no ears | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
On top of its head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 top | case |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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