Test 7 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…
Your mate wants to pick up a bright yellow frog on holiday in Colombia. What should you say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: want, pick up, say · To what, where: bright yellow frog, holiday · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: Your mate wants to pick up a bright yellow frog on holiday in Colombia.
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 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pick | mark |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 pick | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 frog | det |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 frog | amod |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 frog | amod |
| 10 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 holiday | case |
| 12 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frog | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Colombia | case |
| 14 | Colombia | Colombia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 frog | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Your mate | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your mate not said here | a bright yellow frog | holiday | in Colombia | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic |
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 should you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Fine, as long as you wash your hands well with soap afterwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 wash | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wash | nsubj |
| 7 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wash | obj |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 wash | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 soap | case |
| 12 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wash | obl |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 wash | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | present | you | your hands | with soap; afterwards, well property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
Option 2
Fine, all frogs are harmless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frogs | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fine | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 frogs | det |
| 4 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 harmless | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 harmless | cop |
| 6 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all Fine frogs | harmless property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only red frogs are poisonous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 frogs | advmod |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 frogs | amod |
| 3 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 poisonous | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poisonous | cop |
| 5 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | red frogs | poisonous property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Do not touch it; wild bright frogs can be deadly poisonous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 touch | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 touch | advmod |
| 3 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touch | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 poisonous | punct |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 frogs | amod |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 frogs | amod |
| 8 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 poisonous | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 poisonous | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 poisonous | cop |
| 11 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poisonous | advmod |
| 12 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 touch | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative · do-support | you not said here | it | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | can | wild bright frogs | poisonous property | tree rules |
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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