Test 5 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

«just grab it, it's red, black and yellow so it's the safe one, the rhyme says» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, it, rhyme · What happens: grab, be, say · To what, where: it, safe one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 grab	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 grab	advmod
3	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grab	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 red	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 red	cop
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grab	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 black	punct
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 yellow	cc
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 one	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grab	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rhyme	det
21	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grab	parataxis
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 right	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 right	cop
26	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 says	ccomp
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grab in a quote	imperative	you not said here	it		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	it		red property	tree rules
3	be in a quote					tree rules
4	be in a quote					tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	it	the safe one		tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the rhyme			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	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

All red snakes are harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 snakes	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snakes	amod
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harmless	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harmless	cop
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all red snakes					harmless property	tree rules

Option 2

The rhyme always works, everywhere in the world, so go ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rhyme	det
2	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 works	advmod
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 everywhere	punct
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 works	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 everywhere	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 works	conj
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	12 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the rhyme					always, everywhere property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	infinitive	the rhyme not said here					ahead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Never touch a wild snake; colour rhymes are not reliable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 touch	advmod
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touch	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 reliable	punct
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rhymes	compound
8	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reliable	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reliable	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 reliable	advmod
11	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 touch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	imperative	you not said here	a wild snake					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Co-Theme
2	not is	present	colour rhymes					reliable property	tree rules

Option 4

Yellow means the snake is asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Yellow						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the snake					asleep property	tree rules

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