Test 4 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…
A lobster in a fish shop is bright red. What can you tell?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lobster, you · What happens: be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A lobster in a fish shop is bright red.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lobster | det |
| 2 | lobster | lobster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 red | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shop | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shop | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shop | compound |
| 6 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lobster | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 red | cop |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 red | amod |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 red | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a lobster in a fish shop | red property | 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.
Sentence 2: What can you tell?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
It is very angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | angry property | tree rules |
Option 2
It is very young
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | young property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It is a rare red kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 4 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a rare red kind | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It has already been cooked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooked | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 cooked | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cooked | aux:pass |
| 5 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present · perfect · passive | It | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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