Test 10 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

«why's that frog's throat blowing up like bubblegum» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: throat · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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 blowing	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 blowing	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blowing	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 frog	det
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throat	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 frog	case
7	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blowing	nsubj
8	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 blowing	compound:prt
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 bubblegum	case
11	bubblegum	bubblegum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blowing	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 blowing	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blowing	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 blowing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that frog's throat					like bubblegum; blow property	tree rules
2	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

It is sick and needs a vet

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

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

Option 2

It is about to pop

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 pop	mark
5	pop	pop	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	pop	to-infinitive							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It swallowed a big gulp of air by mistake and can't burp

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	2 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gulp	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gulp	amod
5	gulp	gulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gulp	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 mistake	case
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burp	cc
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 burp	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 burp	advmod
13	burp	burp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swallowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	It	a big gulp of air	by mistake	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gulp=Patient
2	not burp	can				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gulp			air		nom gulp «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A male is filling his vocal sac to call louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 male	det
2	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 filling	aux
4	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sac	nmod:poss
6	vocal	vocal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sac	amod
7	sac	sac	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filling	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 call	mark
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 filling	advcl
10	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present · progressive	a male	male's vocal sac					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sac=Patient
2	call	to-infinitive	a male not said here					loud property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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