Test 11 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

«why does that chameleon look two ways at once, is it broken» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: chameleon · What happens: look, break, be · To what, where: two ways, chameleon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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	_	6 look	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 look	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 chameleon	det
5	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 broken	csubj:pass
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ways	nummod
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux:pass
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 broken	nsubj:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 broken	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present · do-support	that chameleon	two ways		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
2	break in a quote	present · passive		chameleon		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
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

It is about to faint

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	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 faint	mark
5	faint	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	faint	to-infinitive							vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It has a nasty eye disease and needs a vet

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 disease	det
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 disease	amod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disease	compound
6	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 needs	cc
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 vet	det
10	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a nasty eye disease					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Patient
2	need	present		a vet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 3

Every animal can do that, you just never noticed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 you	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	conj
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 noticed	advmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 noticed	advmod
10	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	every animal	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	not notice	participle	every animal not said here						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Its eyes move on their own, so it can watch all around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 move	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 watch	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 watch	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 watch	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 watch	aux
11	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 move	parataxis
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 around	advmod
13	around	around	ADV	_	11 watch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Its eyes			eyes's own			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory
2	watch	can	it					around property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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