Test 5 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

«that wombat poo's square, someone's messing with us» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: square · What happens: mess, be

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	_	6 square	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 poo	det
3	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poo	compound
4	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 square	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 poo	case
6	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 right	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 someone	punct
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 square	appos
9	's	's	PART	_	8 someone	case
10	messing	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 someone	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 messing	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 square	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess in a quote	gerund						with us	tree rules
2	is	present	that wombat poo's square					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 · ← Mova's choice

It is not poo, it is a wombat egg

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 poo	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poo	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 poo	advmod
4	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 egg	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 egg	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 egg	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 egg	det
9	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 egg	compound
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poo	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	poo and a wombat egg					tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a wombat egg					tree rules

Option 2

Someone carved it with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 carved	nsubj
2	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carved	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 knife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past	Someone	it				with a knife	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with knife=Instrument

Option 3

Wombats sit on square rocks to squash it into shape on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wombats	wombat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	nsubj
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
4	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rocks	compound
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 squash	mark
7	squash	squash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sit	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 squash	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 shape	case
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squash	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 purpose	case
12	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Wombats			square rocks			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
2	squash	to-infinitive	Wombats not said here	it		shape		on purpose	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into shape=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wombats really make cube-shaped droppings, shaped in the gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wombats	wombat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cube	cube	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shaped	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 shaped	punct
6	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 droppings	amod
7	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shaped	punct
9	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 droppings	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 gut	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gut	det
12	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	Wombats	shaped droppings		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product
2	shape	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	shape	participle		shaped droppings not said here	the gut	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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