Test 1 · ★★ · The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mo…

«ratty's a rat innit, it's in his name» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ratty, name · What happens: be · To what, where: rat innit, name

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 403 «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
2	ratty	ratty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 innit	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 innit	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 innit	det
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 innit	compound
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 name	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 name	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 name	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 innit	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 name	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 name	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	ratty	a rat innit			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	ratty		his name		tree rules
3	is	present	his name			right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He is a water vole: a blunt-nosed plant-eater with a short furry tail

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vole	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vole	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vole	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vole	compound
5	vole	vole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 eater	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eater	det
8	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nosed	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 blunt	punct
10	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 eater	amod
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eater	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 plant	punct
13	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vole	appos
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 tail	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tail	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tail	amod
17	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tail	amod
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eater	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a water vole					tree rules
2	nose	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is a mouse that grew very big by living near water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mouse	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mouse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mouse	acl:relcl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 living	mark
10	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 big	advcl
11	near	near	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a mouse			tree rules
2	grow	past	a mouse			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	gerund	a mouse not said here		water		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near water=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He is a brown rat, the kind that lives in sewers, because the book says so

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rat	det
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rat	amod
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	appos
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lives	nsubj
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sewers	case
12	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lives	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 says	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 book	det
16	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rat	parataxis
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a brown rat		tree rules
2	live	present	the kind		sewers	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sewer=Location
3	say speech: assert	present	the book			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He is a rat that has learnt to swim from the Otter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rat	det
4	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 learnt	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 learnt	aux
7	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 rat	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 swim	mark
9	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 learnt	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 Otter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Otter	det
12	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a rat		tree rules
2	learn	present · perfect	a rat			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	swim	to-infinitive	a rat not said here		from the Otter	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from otter=Trajectory

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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