Test 4 · ★★ · The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel,…

«leopards just stand in shade till they get spotty, innit» What would you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leopards, you · What happens: stand, get, innit, say · To what, where: shade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 404 «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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	_	4 stand	punct
2	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stand	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 shade	case
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	advcl
10	spotty	spotty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stand	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 say	obj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stand	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	present	leopards	shade		tree rules
2	get in a quote	present	leopards = leopard		spotty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	leopards not said here			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	would	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, but only young leopards can do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 leopards	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leopards	amod
6	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	young leopards	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

No, leopards get spots from a rash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 leopards	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 rash	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rash	det
8	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	leopards	spots		a rash			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spot=Theme from rash=Source

Option 3

Yes, it takes about a month in deep shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 takes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 month	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 shade	case
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shade	amod
10	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	it			deep shade	month		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, a leopard cub is born with its spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 born	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cub	det
4	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cub	compound
5	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 born	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 born	aux:pass
7	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 spots	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 spots	nmod:poss
10	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		a leopard cub				with cub's spots	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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