Test 4 · How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses,…
In Tom and Jerry, Tom sleeps flat on his back snoring for hours. Which real animal often dozes standing up instead?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, real animal · What happens: sleep, snore, doze, stand up · To what, where: Tom
This is test 4 of lesson 390 «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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
Sentence 1: In Tom and Jerry, Tom sleeps flat on his back snoring for hours.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Tom | case |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sleeps | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Jerry | cc |
| 4 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tom | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tom | punct |
| 6 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sleeps | nsubj |
| 7 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sleeps | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleeps | obl |
| 12 | snoring | snore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sleeps | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hours | case |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 snoring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | Tom | Tom and Jerry | on Jerry's back; flat property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tom=Location | |||
| 2 | snore | gerund | Tom not said here | hour | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: Which real animal often dozes standing up instead?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dozes | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 dozes | advmod |
| 5 | dozes | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 dozes | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 standing | compound:prt |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 6 standing | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dozes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doze | present | which real animal | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand up | gerund | which real animal not said here | instead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The koala
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 koala | det |
| 2 | koala | koala | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The bat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bat | det |
| 2 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The house cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | compound |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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