Test 2 · Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps,…

«grandad's mate says slugs nibbled it so it's safe, chuck it in the soup» What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, slugs, best reply · What happens: say, nibble, be, chuck · To what, where: mate, soup · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 393 «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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	_	5 says	punct
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mate	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 grandad	case
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nibbled	nsubj
7	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nibbled	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 safe	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nibbled	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chuck	punct
14	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nibbled	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chuck	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 soup	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 soup	det
18	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chuck	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 nibbled	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 nibbled	parataxis
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 What	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reply	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 reply	amod
24	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 What	nsubj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	grandad's mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	nibble in a quote	past	slugs	mate			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	mate			safe property	tree rules
4	chuck in a quote	infinitive	slugs not said here	mate	the soup		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in soup=Destination
5	is a	present	the best reply				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 · ← Mova's choice

Right, slugs can smell poison, so they only ever eat the mushrooms that are safe

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 smell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 smell	aux
5	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 eat	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 eat	advmod
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 eat	advmod
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 smell	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mushrooms	det
14	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 safe	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 safe	cop
17	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mushrooms	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	smell	can	slugs	poison			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poison=Stimulus
2	eat	infinitive	slugs = slug	the mushrooms	ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient
3	is	present	the mushrooms			safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Right, slugs taste food for us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 taste	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taste	nsubj
4	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	slugs	food				for us	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Location for we=Theme

Option 3

Only if two slugs nibbled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 nibbled	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 nibbled	mark
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 slugs	nummod
4	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nibbled	nsubj
5	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nibbled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	past	two slugs	it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That is a myth; slugs eat poisonous mushrooms too, only an expert can tell

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
6	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mushrooms	amod
9	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
10	too	too	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 expert	advmod
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 expert	det
14	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a myth	tree rules
2	eat	present	slugs	poisonous mushrooms	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	can	a expert		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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