Test 7 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…
You see a reptile with a wide U-shaped snout and no lower teeth showing. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, lower teeth, reptile · What happens: see, shape, show, be · To what, where: reptile
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: You see a reptile with a wide U-shaped snout and no lower teeth showing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 reptile | det |
| 4 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 snout | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 snout | det |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 snout | amod |
| 8 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shaped | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 U | punct |
| 10 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 snout | amod |
| 11 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 teeth | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 teeth | det |
| 14 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 teeth | amod |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 snout | conj |
| 16 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 teeth | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | a reptile | with a wide shaped snout and no lower teeth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reptile=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | show | gerund | no lower teeth not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | reptile | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An alligator
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 alligator | det |
| 2 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A Komodo dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | Komodo | Komodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | compound |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A little house gecko
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gecko | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gecko | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gecko | compound |
| 4 | gecko | gecko | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A Nile crocodile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crocodile | det |
| 2 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crocodile | compound |
| 3 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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