Test 3 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

«snake stuck its tongue out at me, it's gonna sting» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: snake, gonna sting · What happens: stick out, be · To what, where: tongue, gonna sting

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» 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	_	3 stuck	punct
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	nsubj
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tongue	nmod:poss
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 stuck	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 stuck	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sting	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sting	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sting	cop
12	gonna	gonna	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sting	amod
13	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 sting	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sting	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stick out in a quote	past	snake	snake's tongue	at me	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at i=Destination
2	is a in a quote	present	snake	gonna sting		tree rules
3	is	present	gonna sting		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

Yes, the tongue sprays venom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sprays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprays	nsubj
5	sprays	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	present	the tongue	venom					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent venom=Theme

Option 2

Yes, the tongue has a little sting at each of its two tips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sting	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sting	amod
8	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sting	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tips	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tips	nmod:poss
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tips	nummod
14	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 each	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the tongue	a little sting		each			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient

Option 3

Only the fork part can sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 part	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 part	det
3	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	compound
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sting	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sting	aux
6	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	can	the fork part						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

The tongue is harmless; it is just smelling the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tongue	det
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harmless	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harmless	cop
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 smelling	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 smelling	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 smelling	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 smelling	advmod
9	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 harmless	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smelling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tongue					harmless property	tree rules
2	is	present	tongue					smell property	tree rules

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