Test 11 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

Why might a see-through frog be hard for a bird to spot on a leaf?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: see through frog, bird · What happens: see, be, spot · To what, where: leaf

This is test 11 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hard	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 frog	det
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 frog	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 through	punct
6	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frog	amod
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hard	nsubj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	cop
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 spot	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spot	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 spot	mark
14	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 leaf	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leaf	det
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spot	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	might	a see through frog		hard property	tree rules
3	spot	to-infinitive	a bird	a leaf		vn weather-57 «It V PP.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.

The options

Option 1

It is too small to eat

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	4 small	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					small property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It hides under the leaf all day and never comes out to feed

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 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 leaf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaf	det
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 comes	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 comes	advmod
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hides	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 comes	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feed	mark
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 comes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	hide	present	It	the leaf	day	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location
2	not come out	present				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	feed	to-infinitive				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Light passes through, so it looks like part of the leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passes	nsubj
2	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADV	_	2 passes	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 looks	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 looks	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 passes	conj
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 part	mark
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 leaf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leaf	det
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass through	present	Light					through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	present	it						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Birds cannot see the colour green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 green	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 green	compound
7	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Birds	the colour green					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer green=Stimulus

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