Test 7 · ★★ · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

«pigs are dumb, just mud and food» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pigs · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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 dumb	punct
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dumb	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dumb	cop
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mud	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 mud	advmod
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dumb	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 food	cc
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mud	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 mud	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dumb	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dumb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pigs					dumb property	tree rules
2	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 · ✓ the right answer

Pigs used a mirror to find food and played a joystick game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mirror	det
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 played	cc
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 game	det
11	joystick	joystick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 game	compound
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	past	Pigs	a mirror	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient
2	find	to-infinitive	Pigs not said here	food	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	play	past	Pigs not said here	a joystick game	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 2

Pigs can read books and simple signs on the farm gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 signs	cc
6	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signs	amod
7	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 books	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gate	compound
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	Pigs	books and simple signs		the farm gate			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Pigs cannot learn anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 learn	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	Pigs	anything		all			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 4

Pigs are blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blind	cop
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigs					blind property	tree rules

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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