Test 10 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth

Which is true about the elephant you see swimming with only the tip of its trunk out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, see, swim out

This is test 10 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 elephant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
9	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 see	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 tip	case
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 tip	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tip	det
13	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swimming	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 trunk	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 trunk	nmod:poss
16	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tip	nmod
17	out	out	ADP	_	9 swimming	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		true property	tree rules
2	see	present	you	about the elephant	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	swim out	gerund	you not said here	with the tip of tip's trunk	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tip=Theme

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 smelling the water for fish to eat

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 smelling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smelling	aux
3	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smelling	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smelling	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smelling	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present · progressive	It	the water				for fish	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Location for fish=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is drowning and needs help

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 drowning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drowning	aux
3	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 needs	cc
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drowning	conj
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present · progressive	It						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	need	present		help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 3

It is drinking the whole pool

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 drinking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drinking	aux
3	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pool	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pool	amod
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present · progressive	It	the whole pool					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It breathes through the trunk like a snorkel

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 breathes	nsubj
2	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 trunk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathes	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 snorkel	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snorkel	det
8	snorkel	snorkel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	It			the trunk		like a snorkel	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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