Test 9 · ★★ · China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji…

«chinese alligator, so it's huge like the american ones» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: alligator, american ones · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 379 «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 alligator	punct
2	chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 alligator	amod
3	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 huge	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 huge	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 huge	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 huge	cop
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 alligator	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 ones	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ones	det
11	american	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 huge	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 ones	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	12 ones	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 alligator	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	alligator					like the american ones; huge property	tree rules
2	is	present	the american ones					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 as long and heavy as a bus

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	4 long	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heavy	cc
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 bus	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bus	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					as a bus; long property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2

It is the biggest reptile in the world

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	5 reptile	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reptile	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reptile	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reptile	amod
5	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reptile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the biggest reptile		the world			tree rules

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

It is small, about 1.5 metres

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 small	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 metres	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 1.5	advmod
6	1.5	1.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 small	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					1.5 metres obl:unmarked; small property	tree rules

Option 4

It is a kind of lizard that flies

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lizard	case
6	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flies	nsubj
8	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of lizard	tree rules
2	fly	present	a kind						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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