Test 3 · The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs

«found a platypus on the creek bank, gonna pick it up for a pic» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best advice · What happens: find, pick up, be · To what, where: platypus, creek bank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 43 «The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs» 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 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 platypus	det
4	platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
7	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	compound
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 platypus	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pick	punct
10	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	11 pick	dep
11	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pick	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 pick	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 pic	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pic	det
16	pic	pic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pick	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 found	parataxis
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 What	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 advice	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 advice	amod
22	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a platypus	the creek bank		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent platypus=Attribute clause=Theme
2	pick up in a quote	infinitive		platypus		for a pic	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
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

Only pick up the ones that glow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 pick	advmod
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 pick	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pick	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 glow	nsubj
7	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	the ones					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	glow	present	the ones						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Leave it: a male can stab with a venomous spur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 stab	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 male	det
5	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stab	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stab	aux
7	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 spur	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spur	det
10	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spur	amod
11	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stab	can	a male					with a venomous spur	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spur=Instrument

Option 3

Fine, platypuses are totally harmless little things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 platypuses	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	platypuses	platypus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 things	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 things	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 harmless	advmod
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fine platypuses	harmless little things					tree rules

Option 4

Fine, just hold its bill shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hold	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 hold	advmod
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bill	nmod:poss
6	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj
7	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hold	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	its bill				shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Theme
2	bill		its = it						nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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