Test 6 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…
The Mock Turtle cries all through his story. Which real animal really does have «tears»?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mock Turtle, real animal · What happens: cry, have · To what, where: story, tears
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: The Mock Turtle cries all through his story.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turtle | det |
| 2 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Turtle | compound |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cries | nsubj |
| 4 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 story | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cries | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cries | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | the Mock Turtle | Turtle's story | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
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 real animal really does have «tears»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 tears | punct |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 tears | punct |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | which real animal | tears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A sea turtle, which gets rid of salt that way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 turtle | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turtle | compound |
| 3 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gets | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 salt | case |
| 9 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rid | obl |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a sea turtle | that way | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
A whiting, which cries out of its gills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 whiting | det |
| 2 | whiting | whiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cries | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cries | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cries | nsubj |
| 5 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 gills | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gills | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 gills | nmod:poss |
| 9 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cries | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | present | a whiting | whiting's gills | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Topic |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A lobster, which cries when it is cooked
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 | 5 cries | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cries | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cries | nsubj |
| 5 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 cooked | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cooked | aux:pass |
| 9 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cries | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | a lobster | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cook | present · passive | lobster | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
A tortoise, which cries when it is cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tortoise | det |
| 2 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cries | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cries | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cries | nsubj |
| 5 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 cold | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cold | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cold | cop |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cries | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | a tortoise | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | tortoise | cold property | tree rules |
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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