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Test 12 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…

In Peter Pan the crocodile swallows a ticking clock. Which is true of real crocodiles?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: crocodile · What happens: swallow, be · To what, where: ticking clock, Peter

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 88 «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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: In Peter Pan the crocodile swallows a ticking clock.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Peter	case
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obl
3	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Peter	flat
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crocodile	det
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	nsubj
6	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clock	det
8	ticking	ticking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clock	compound
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swallows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	the crocodile	a ticking clock		Peter			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient

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: Which is true of real crocodiles?

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	of	of	ADP	_	6 crocodiles	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crocodiles	amod
6	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of real crocodiles; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They chew their food slowly like cows, for a long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chew	nsubj
2	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chew	obj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 chew	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 cows	case
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	They	their food				like cows; slowly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They swallow prey whole or in chunks, and sometimes stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallow	nsubj
2	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallow	obj
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swallow	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 chunks	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 chunks	case
7	chunks	chunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 whole	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stones	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stones	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 stones	advmod
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swallow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	They	prey				stones obl; whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient

Option 3

They eat only clocks and metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 clocks	advmod
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 metal	cc
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clocks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	clocks and metal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient

Option 4

They never swallow anything whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallow	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 swallow	advmod
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 swallow	obj
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swallow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swallow	present	They	anything				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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