Test 3 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

«saw a platypus, gonna pick it up for a selfie» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: best answer · What happens: see, pick up, be · To what, where: platypus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 platypus	det
4	platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pick	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 pick	dep
7	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 platypus	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pick	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 pick	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 selfie	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 selfie	det
12	selfie	selfie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 saw	parataxis
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		a platypus		tree rules
2	pick up in a quote	infinitive		platypus	for a selfie	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

Fine, as long as you hold it by the bill so it cannot bite you

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 hold	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nsubj
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 bill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bill	det
11	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obl
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 bite	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bite	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bite	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bite	advmod
16	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hold	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	you	it				by the bill	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by bill=Location
2	not bite	can	bill	you					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 2

Fine, they love being held

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 held	aux:pass
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 love	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	they						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hold not said to happen	gerund · passive	they not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»

Option 3

Fine, platypuses are harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 platypuses	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	platypuses	platypus	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harmless	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harmless	cop
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fine platypuses					harmless property	tree rules

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

Don't: males have a venomous spur that causes terrible pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
4	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spur	det
7	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spur	amod
8	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 causes	nsubj
10	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spur	acl:relcl
11	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pain	amod
12	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not do	imperative	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	males	a venomous spur	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Patient
3	cause	present	a venomous spur	terrible pain	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=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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