Test 5 · China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-…

«that monkey's got a blue face, someone painted it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkey, someone · What happens: get, paint, be · To what, where: blue face, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 378 «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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	_	5 got	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 painted	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 face	det
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 face	amod
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 painted	nsubj
11	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 painted	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 painted	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 painted	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 painted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	that monkey	a blue face		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
2	paint in a quote	past	someone	face		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute
3	is	present			right 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

It is ill with a blue fever

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 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 fever	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fever	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fever	amod
7	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					with a blue fever; ill property	tree rules

Option 2

It is cold, so it turned blue

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 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 turned	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	conj
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cold property	tree rules
2	turn	past	it					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its blue face comes from the way its skin scatters light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 face	nmod:poss
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 face	amod
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scatters	nsubj
10	scatters	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scatters	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Its blue face			the way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from way=Initial_Location
2	scatter	present	face's skin	light					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 4

It paints itself with blue berries every morning to look nice for the troop

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 paints	nsubj
2	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 paints	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 berries	case
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 berries	amod
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paints	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paints	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paints	advcl
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 troop	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 troop	det
14	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	It	itself = it			morning	with blue berries	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Destination with berry=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive						for the troop; nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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