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Test 4 · Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird

«saw a tiny spiky alligator thing eating greenfly on the roses, kill it?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny spiky alligator thing, best answer · What happens: see, eat, kill, be · To what, where: tiny spiky alligator thing, greenfly, roses

This is test 4 of lesson 48 «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» 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: «saw a tiny spiky alligator thing eating greenfly on the roses, kill it?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
5	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
6	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 thing	acl
9	greenfly	greenfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 roses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roses	det
12	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kill	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		a tiny spiky alligator thing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	eat in a quote	gerund	a tiny spiky alligator thing not said here	greenfly		the roses			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greenfly=Patient
3	kill in a quote	infinitive		greenfly					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a ladybird larva and it eats the aphids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 larva	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 larva	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 larva	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 larva	det
6	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 larva	compound
7	larva	larva	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eats	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eats	nsubj
10	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 larva	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 aphids	det
12	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a ladybird larva					tree rules
2	eat	present	larva	the aphids					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient

Option 2

Yes, it is a baby lizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 lizard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lizard	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lizard	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lizard	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lizard	compound
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a baby lizard					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, it is a baby caterpillar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 caterpillar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caterpillar	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 caterpillar	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caterpillar	compound
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a baby caterpillar					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it is a pest that will eat all your roses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 pest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pest	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pest	det
6	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 eat	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pest	acl:relcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 roses	det:predet
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 roses	nmod:poss
12	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a pest					tree rules
2	eat	future	a pest	your roses					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient

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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