Test 2 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

«my nan says touch a toad and you get warts» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, you · What happens: say, touch, get, be · To what, where: toad, warts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
11	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 get	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	10 get	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch in a quote	infinitive		a toad		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Co-Theme
3	get in a quote	present	you	warts		tree rules
4	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 · ← Mova's choice

Your nan is right, toads spread warts to anyone who picks them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct
6	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spread	nsubj
7	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	parataxis
8	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spread	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 spread	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 picks	nsubj
12	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 anyone	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 picks	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 picks	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your nan		right property	tree rules
2	spread	present	toads	warts	to anyone	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wart=Theme
3	pick up	present		warts = wart		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Warts come from a human virus; toad bumps are glands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 virus	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 virus	det
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 virus	amod
6	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 glands	punct
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bumps	compound
9	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 glands	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 glands	cop
11	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Warts			a human virus			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location
2	is a	present	toad bumps	glands					tree rules

Option 3

Warts come from eating frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Warts						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	Warts not said here	frogs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient

Option 4

Only frogs give warts, not toads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 frogs	advmod
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 toads	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 toads	advmod
7	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	frogs	warts				toads obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wart=Theme

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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