Test 12 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

«why's that howler so loud, he's only small» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: howler, he · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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	_	12 small	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 loud	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 loud	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 howler	det
5	howler	howler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loud	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	12 small	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loud	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 small	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 small	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 small	advmod
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 small	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	12 small	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 small	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that howler	loud property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	he	small property	tree rules
3	is	present		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

He has a microphone hidden in the tree, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 microphone	det
4	microphone	microphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 microphone	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 has	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	a microphone					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microphone=Patient
2	hide	participle		a microphone not said here		the tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

Option 2

Small animals are always the loudest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loudest	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loudest	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 loudest	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loudest	det
6	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small animals					always, loud property	tree rules

Option 3

He is much bigger than he looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bigger	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 looks	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					big property	tree rules
2	look	present	he						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A hollow bone in his throat makes the sound echo and grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bone	det
2	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bone	amod
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 throat	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 throat	nmod:poss
6	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	nmod
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 echo	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 echo	compound
10	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grow	cc
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 makes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a hollow bone in bone's throat	the sound echo					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset echo=Product
2	grow	present	a hollow bone in bone's throat not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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