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Test 4 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

The blue morpho of South America looks bright blue. Where does its blue come from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blue morpho · What happens: look, do · To what, where: blue come

This is test 4 · ★ 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: The blue morpho of South America looks bright blue.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morpho	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morpho	amod
3	morpho	morpho	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 morpho	nmod
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blue	amod
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looks	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the blue morpho of South America					blue property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 does its blue come from?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	conj
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 come	nmod:poss
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	amod
5	come	come	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	2 does	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		morpho's blue come					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent come=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Blue blood showing through its thin wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 blood	amod
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 blood	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 wings	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wings	nmod:poss
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wings	amod
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund	Blue blood not said here			blood's thin wings			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The shape of its scales bouncing light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shape	det
2	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 scales	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 scales	nmod:poss
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shape	nmod
6	bouncing	bounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 scales	acl
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bouncing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	gerund	shape's scales not said here	light					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Agent

Option 3

The blue sky reflecting off its shiny body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sky	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sky	amod
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sky	acl
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 reflecting	compound:prt
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reflecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect off	gerund	the blue sky not said here	sky's shiny body					tree rules

Option 4

Blue colour it gets from eating blue berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 colour	amod
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gets	advcl
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 berries	amod
8	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Blue colour						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	gerund	Blue colour not said here	blue berries					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient

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