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Test 2 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…

A tortoise in a cartoon takes off its shell to take a bath. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tortoise · What happens: take off, take, be · To what, where: shell, bath

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: A tortoise in a cartoon takes off its shell to take a bath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 takes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cartoon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cartoon	det
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tortoise	nmod
6	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 takes	compound:prt
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shell	nmod:poss
9	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 takes	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 takes	csubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bath	det
13	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	present	a tortoise in a cartoon	tortoise's shell					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive		a bath					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme

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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The shell is part of its skeleton and cannot come off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shell	det
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 skeleton	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skeleton	nmod:poss
7	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 part	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 come	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shell	part				of shell's skeleton	tree rules
2	not come off	can	the shell not said here						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only old tortoises can leave their shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 tortoises	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tortoises	amod
3	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shells	nmod:poss
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	can	old tortoises	tortoises's shells					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme

Option 3

Tortoises really do leave their shells behind at bath time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leave	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shells	nmod:poss
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leave	obj
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · do-support	Tortoises	Tortoises's shells			time	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme

Option 4

Tortoises swap shells with each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swap	nsubj
2	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swap	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 swap	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present	Tortoises	shells				with each	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent shell=Theme with each=Co-Agent

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