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Test 9 · The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs

In a game, a platypus hatches from an egg and its mother feeds it worms. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: platypus, mother · What happens: hatch, feed, be · To what, where: game, platypus

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: In a game, a platypus hatches from an egg and its mother feeds it worms.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hatches	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 platypus	det
6	platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hatches	nsubj
7	hatches	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 egg	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 egg	det
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hatches	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feeds	cc
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feeds	nsubj
14	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hatches	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feeds	obj
16	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feeds	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hatches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	a platypus			a game		from a egg	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from egg=Patient
2	feed	present	platypus's mother	platypus					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient worm=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

Platypuses do not hatch from eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Platypuses	platypus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hatch	advmod
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hatch	present · do-support	Platypuses					from eggs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from egg=Patient

Option 3

Platypus mothers feed their babies fish bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mothers	compound
2	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	nsubj
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 babies	nmod:poss
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	obj
6	fish	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feed	conj
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Platypus mothers	mothers's babies					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient
2	fish	present	Platypus mothers not said here	bones					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Platypus babies drink their mother's milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 babies	compound
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 milk	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mother	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Platypus babies	babies's mother's milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

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