Test 9 · ★★ · The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, th…
The Pigeon screams that Alice is a serpent who eats eggs. Which part of its fear is true about real animals?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pigeon, Alice, serpent, part · What happens: scream, be, eat, fear · To what, where: serpent, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: The Pigeon screams that Alice is a serpent who eats eggs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Pigeon | det |
| 2 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 screams | nsubj |
| 3 | screams | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 serpent | mark |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 serpent | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 serpent | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 serpent | det |
| 8 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 screams | ccomp |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 eats | nsubj |
| 10 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 serpent | acl:relcl |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eats | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 screams | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | present | the Pigeon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Alice | a serpent | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | a serpent | eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |
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 part of its fear is true about real animals?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 part | det |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 true | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 animals | case |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animals | amod |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 true | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which part of part's fear | about real animals; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | part | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Snakes really do eat birds' eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 birds | nmod:poss |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 eat | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Snakes | acl:relcl |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · do-support | Snakes not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Pigeons really do eat snakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snakes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 eat | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pigeons | acl:relcl |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · do-support | Pigeons not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Pigeons really do lay eggs on the ground in the open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | aux |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 open | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 open | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present · do-support | Pigeons | eggs | the ground | in the open | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on ground=Destination |
Option 4
Girls with long necks really do eat eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 necks | case |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 necks | amod |
| 4 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Girls | nmod |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 eat | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · do-support | Girls with long necks | eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |
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