Test 3 · How animals defend themselves

A zoo frog is the same bright blue as a wild one. Why is it safe while the wild one is poisonous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo frog, frog, wild one · What happens: be

This is test 3 of lesson 53 «How animals defend themselves» 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: A zoo frog is the same bright blue as a wild one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blue	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blue	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blue	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	amod
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 one	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blue	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 blue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a zoo frog					as a wild one; blue 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.

Sentence 2: Why is it safe while the wild one is poisonous?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 safe	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 safe	nsubj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 poisonous	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poisonous	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poisonous	cop
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 safe	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 safe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	frog					safe property	tree rules
2	is	present	the wild one					poisonous property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It eats crickets and fruit flies, not the wild ants and mites

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crickets	cricket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flies	cc
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	compound
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crickets	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ants	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ants	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ants	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ants	amod
11	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crickets	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mites	cc
13	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crickets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	crickets and fruit flies and the wild ants and mites					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cricket=Patient

Option 2

It is only poisonous in the rain

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	4 poisonous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 poisonous	advmod
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 rain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poisonous	obl

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

Option 3

Zookeepers wash all of the poison off its skin every single morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zookeepers	zookeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wash	nsubj
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 wash	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 poison	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poison	det
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 all	nmod
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 skin	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wash	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 morning	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wash	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	Zookeepers	all		poison's skin	morning		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent all=Theme off skin=Source

Option 4

Zoo glass soaks up the poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 glass	compound
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soaks	nsubj
3	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 soaks	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poison	det
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	Zoo glass	the poison					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent poison=Source

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