Test 8 · ★★ · The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel,…

«armadillo is half hedgehog half tortoise, the book says so» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: armadillo, book · What happens: be, say · To what, where: half hedgehog half tortoise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	7 tortoise	punct
2	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tortoise	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tortoise	cop
4	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 tortoise	amod
5	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tortoise	compound
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 tortoise	compound
7	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tortoise	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 book	det
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 true	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 so	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	armadillo	half hedgehog half tortoise		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the book			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			true 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a mammal of its own kind, with hair on its belly

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 mammal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mammal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mammal	det
4	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kind	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mammal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hair	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 hair	case
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mammal	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 belly	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 belly	nmod:poss
14	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hair	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mammal				of mammal's own kind; with hair on hair's belly	tree rules

Option 2

It is a reptile, like the tortoise

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 reptile	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reptile	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reptile	det
4	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tortoise	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 tortoise	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tortoise	det
8	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reptile	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a reptile and the tortoise					tree rules

Option 3

It is a kind of hedgehog that lives in America

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 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 hedgehog	case
6	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 America	case
10	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of hedgehog	tree rules
2	live	present	a kind			America			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location

Option 4

It really is a mix of the two animals

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 mix	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 mix	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mix	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mix	det
5	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 animals	nummod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mix	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mix				of the two animals	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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