Test 1 · The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs

«rat won the race cos it's fastest, obviously» What does the legend say, and what is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rat, race, legend · What happens: win, co, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 382 «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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 won	punct
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 race	det
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cos	nsubj
6	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 won	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fastest	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fastest	cop
9	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 cos	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obviously	punct
11	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	3 won	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 won	obj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 legend	det
16	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 true	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 true	cc
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 true	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 true	cop
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 won	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	win in a quote	past	rat	obviously property	tree rules
2	co in a quote	present	the race		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	race	fast property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the legend		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	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

The rat flew over the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the rat			the river			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It rode on the ox and jumped off; it is only a story

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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ox	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ox	det
5	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jumped	cc
7	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 jumped	compound:prt
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 story	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 story	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 story	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ride	past	It		the ox	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	jump off	past				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	ox	a story		tree rules

Option 3

Rats really are faster than oxen and tigers over a long race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 faster	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 faster	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 faster	cop
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 oxen	case
6	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 faster	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tigers	cc
8	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 oxen	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 race	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 race	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 race	amod
12	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rats			a long race		than oxen and tigers; fast property	tree rules

Option 4

The rat really won a race in China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 won	advmod
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 China	case
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the rat	a race		China			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

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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