Test 5 · ★ · The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?

«mate wants to pet a wild capybara, they're basically giant plushies» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, they, best advice · What happens: want, be · To what, where: pet, giant plushies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 42 «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» 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	_	3 wants	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pet	mark
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 capybara	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 capybara	amod
8	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plushies	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 plushies	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 plushies	cop
12	basically	basically	ADV	_	14 plushies	advmod
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plushies	amod
14	plushies	plushy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wants	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 plushies	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wants	parataxis
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 advice	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 advice	amod
20	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	mate	pet		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	they	giant plushies	basically property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best advice			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

Fine, as long as you bring a duck to sit on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bring	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 bring	nsubj
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 duck	det
9	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sit	mark
11	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bring	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	you		a duck				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument duck=Destination
2	sit	to-infinitive	you not said here					on duck	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Do not: a wild capybara can bite hard with its big front teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bite	advcl
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 bite	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 capybara	det
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 capybara	amod
6	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bite	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bite	aux
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 bite	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 teeth	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 teeth	amod
13	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 teeth	amod
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	a wild capybara not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	can	a wild capybara					with capybara's big front teeth; hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument

Option 3

Only pet it if a caiman is lying nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 pet	advmod
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pet	nsubj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 lying	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 caiman	det
6	caiman	caiman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lying	aux
8	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pet	acl
9	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	8 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	a caiman	pet not said here				nearby property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pet=Theme

Option 4

Fine, they never bite anyone, they're the chillest animals going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bite	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bite	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 bite	advmod
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 bite	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 animals	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 animals	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 animals	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animals	det
11	chillest	chill	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 animals	amod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fine	conj
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 animals	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not bite	present	they	anyone	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
2	is a	present	they	the chillest animals	tree rules
3	go	gerund	the chillest animals not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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