Test 11 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

«shut up, a snail hasn't got any teeth» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, snail · What happens: shut up, not get, be · To what, where: teeth

This is test 11 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snail	det
6	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 shut	advcl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 teeth	det
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shut	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not get in a quote	present · perfect	a snail	any teeth		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus
3	is	present			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 · ← Mova's choice

It has exactly 20 teeth, the same as a child

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 20	advmod
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 teeth	nummod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 child	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	20 teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It has thousands of tiny teeth on its radula

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 radula	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 radula	nmod:poss
9	radula	radula	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	thousands of tiny teeth on its radula					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient

Option 3

It has two big front teeth like a rabbit

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 teeth	nummod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 rabbit	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rabbit	det
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	two big front teeth				like a rabbit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 4

It has no teeth and just sucks up juice

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sucks	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sucks	advmod
7	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 sucks	compound:prt
9	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sucks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	suck up	present		juice					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent juice=Theme

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