Test 6 · ★★ · The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, th…

In the book, Alice's flamingo keeps twisting its neck to look at her. What does that tell you about real flamingos?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: flamingo, that · What happens: keep, twist, look, tell · To what, where: book, neck, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 401 «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 the book, Alice's flamingo keeps twisting its neck to look at her.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 book	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 book	punct
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flamingo	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Alice	case
7	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	twisting	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 neck	nmod:poss
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 twisting	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 twisting	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Alice's flamingo		the book		tree rules
2	twist	gerund	Alice's flamingo not said here	flamingo's neck			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive	Alice's flamingo not said here			at Alice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

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: What does that tell you about real flamingos?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 flamingos	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flamingos	amod
8	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		you			about real flamingos	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Their necks are made of one long solid bone and cannot bend at all, even to eat

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 necks	nmod:poss
2	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 bone	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bone	nummod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bone	amod
8	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bone	amod
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bend	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bend	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bend	advmod
13	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 bend	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 eat	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	Their necks		of one long solid bone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	not bend	can		all		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location
3	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Their long necks are soft and bendy, not stiff like a mallet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 necks	nmod:poss
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 necks	amod
3	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 soft	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bendy	cc
7	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soft	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stiff	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stiff	advmod
10	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soft	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 mallet	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mallet	det
13	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stiff	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Their long necks	soft property	tree rules
2	be		Their long necks not said here		tree rules
3	not be		Their long necks not said here	like a mallet	tree rules

Option 3

They cannot see anything in front of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 see	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	They	anything		front of them			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

They always look backwards when they walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 look	advmod
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 walk	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	They					always, backwards property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	walk	present	they						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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