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Test 8 · ★★★ · Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles,…

A monarch flies to a forest in Mexico it has never seen. What does that tell you?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: monarch, that · What happens: fly, not see, tell · To what, where: Mexico, monarch, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 monarch flies to a forest in Mexico it has never seen.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monarch	det
2	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Mexico	case
8	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 flies	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flies	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a monarch			Mexico		to a forest	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mexico=Location
2	not see	present · perfect · passive		monarch					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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: What does that tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It followed a map drawn by its parents

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 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 map	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 parents	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	It	a map					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme
2	draw	participle		a map not said here				by map's parents	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It was carried by the wind by luck

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 carried	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 luck	case
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive	the wind	It				by luck	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

It followed the smell of its mother all the way from Canada to Mexico

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 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smell	det
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	nmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	parataxis
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Canada	case
12	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Mexico	case
14	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	It	the smell of smell's mother		Mexico			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent smell=Theme to mexico=Trajectory
2	smell		smell's mother						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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

The way is built into its body, not learned from older butterflies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learned	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 learned	advmod
10	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 built	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 butterflies	case
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 butterflies	amod
13	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		the way		way's body			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into body=Product
2	not learn	participle						from older butterflies	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from butterfly=Source

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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