Test 4 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…

«croc's yawning, must be bored lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yawning, croc · What happens: be, yawn

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 bored	punct
2	croc	croc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yawning	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 croc	case
4	yawning	yawning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bored	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yawning	punct
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bored	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 bored	cop
8	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 bored	discourse
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 bored	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bored	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	croc's yawning	bored property	tree rules
2	is	present		right property	tree rules
3	yawn in a quote		croc		nom yawning «act 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is bored and wants a toy

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wants	cc
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toy	det
7	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					bored property	tree rules
2	want	present		a toy					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toy=Theme

Option 2

It is waiting for birds to clean its teeth every time

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	3 waiting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waiting	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 clean	mark
7	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clean	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clean	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	It					for birds	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	clean	to-infinitive		its teeth			time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is letting heat out, because it cannot sweat

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	3 letting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 letting	aux
3	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 letting	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 letting	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweat	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 sweat	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sweat	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sweat	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sweat	advmod
11	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 letting	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	present · progressive	It	heat					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	not sweat	can	heat						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is about to roar

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	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 roar	mark
5	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	roar	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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