Test 11 · ★★ · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

«my dog reads my moods, my squirrel remembers nuts, which one's smarter, ugh just tell me» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, squirrel, best answer · What happens: read, remember, tell, be · To what, where: moods, nuts, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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	_	4 reads	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reads	nsubj
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 moods	nmod:poss
6	moods	mood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reads	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remembers	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 squirrel	nmod:poss
9	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remembers	nsubj
10	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reads	conj
11	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remembers	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smarter	punct
13	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smarter	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 one	case
16	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 nuts	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	20 tell	discourse
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 tell	advmod
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 smarter	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 tell	ccomp
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 What	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 answer	det
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 answer	amod
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 What	nsubj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	read in a quote	present	my dog	my moods		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Topic
2	remember in a quote	present	my squirrel	nuts		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is a	present	the best answer			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 squirrel, because its brain is bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squirrel	det
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bigger	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 squirrel	punct
4	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 brain	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brain	nmod:poss
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squirrel	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bigger	cop
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the squirrel because squirrel's brain					big property	tree rules

Option 2

The dog, dogs always win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dogs	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dog	punct
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 win	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 win	advmod
6	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	dog dogs					always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Each is clever in the way its own life needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 clever	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clever	obl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 life	amod
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Each			the way		clever property	tree rules
2	need	present	way's own life	the way not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme

Option 4

Neither has any cleverness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 cleverness	det
4	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Neither	any cleverness					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleverness=Patient

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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