Test 10 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

«snakes all lay eggs, easy» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snakes · What happens: lay, be · To what, where: eggs

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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	_	4 lay	punct
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	advcl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 easy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay in a quote	present	snakes	eggs				all property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	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 · ✓ the right answer

Not all: the adder gives birth to live young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 gives	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 adder	det
5	adder	adder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gives	advcl
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 live	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	all	birth					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
2	live	to-infinitive	all not said here					young property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Right, and so do all sharks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 do	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sharks	det
7	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	all sharks					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Eventuality

Option 3

No, all snakes are born live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 born	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 snakes	det
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 born	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux:pass
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 born	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		all snakes				live property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Right, every snake lays eggs, no exceptions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 lays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lays	nsubj
5	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lays	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exceptions	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 exceptions	det
9	exceptions	exception	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eggs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	every snake	eggs and no exceptions					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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