Test 4 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes
A rattlesnake has 9 rings on its rattle. What can you say about its age?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: rattlesnake, you · What happens: have, rattle, say · To what, where: 9 rings, rattle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A rattlesnake has 9 rings on its rattle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rattlesnake | det |
| 2 | rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 rings | nummod |
| 5 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 rattle | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 rattle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rings | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a rattlesnake | 9 rings | rattlesnake's rattle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | |||
| 2 | rattle | rattlesnake | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 can you say about its age?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 age | nmod:poss |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | you | about rattlesnake's age | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
It is 9 months old
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 | 5 old | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 3 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 months | nummod |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | month | old property | tree rules |
Option 2
It is 90 years old
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 | 5 old | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 3 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | year | old property | tree rules |
Option 3
It is exactly 9 years old, one ring for each year of its life
The tree, 14 words
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 | 6 old | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 9 | advmod |
| 4 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ring | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 ring | nummod |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | appos |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ring | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 year | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | year | old property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Not much; rings are added at each shed, and some break off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rings | amod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 much | punct |
| 4 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 added | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 added | aux:pass |
| 6 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 shed | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 shed | det |
| 9 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 added | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 break | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 break | nsubj |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 added | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 break | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · passive | much rings | each shed | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break off | present | some | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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