Test 12 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

Why is a kiwi's egg remarkable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: egg remarkable · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kiwi	det
4	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remarkable	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 kiwi	case
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remarkable	compound
7	remarkable	remarkable	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a kiwi's egg remarkable					why 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 · ← Mova's choice

It is the smallest egg of any bird in the world

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	5 egg	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 egg	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 egg	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 egg	amod
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 egg	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 egg	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the smallest egg		the world		of any bird	tree rules

Option 2

It is square like a wombat dropping

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 square	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 square	cop
3	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 dropping	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dropping	det
6	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropping	compound
7	dropping	dropping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 square	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	square				like a wombat dropping	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is about 20 percent of the mother's weight

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	5 percent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 percent	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 20	advmod
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 percent	nummod
5	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 weight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weight	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mother	case
10	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 percent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	20 percent				of the mother's weight	tree rules

Option 4

It hatches in one day

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 hatches	nsubj
2	hatches	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hatches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	It				day		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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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