Test 2 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…

Why does the Mock Turtle in the pictures have hooves and a calf's head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mock Turtle, pictures · What happens: do, have · To what, where: hooves

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 402 «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Turtle	det
4	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Turtle	compound
5	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 does	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pictures	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pictures	det
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 head	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 calf	det
13	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 calf	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hooves	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the Mock Turtle						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	the pictures	hooves and a calf's head					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoove=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Because the pretend soup was made from a calf's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soup	det
3	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soup	amod
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 head	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 calf	det
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 calf	case
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the pretend soup		a calf's head			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from head=Material

Option 2

Because Carroll did not know what a turtle looks like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
2	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 looks	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 turtle	det
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nsubj
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 looks	mark

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Carroll						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	present	a turtle						vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute

Option 3

Because he is half cow, like the Gryphon is half lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 cow	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cow	cop
4	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 cow	amod
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cow	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 lion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gryphon	det
9	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lion	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lion	cop
11	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 lion	amod
12	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	half cow					tree rules
2	is	present	the Gryphon					like half lion	tree rules

Option 4

Because real turtles have hooves on their back legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turtles	amod
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 legs	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 legs	compound
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	real turtles	hooves		turtles's back legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoove=Patient

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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