Test 4 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house
In a Tarzan film, a kookaburra laughs in an African jungle. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kookaburra · What happens: laugh, be
This is test 4 of lesson 93 «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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: In a Tarzan film, a kookaburra laughs in an African jungle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 film | det |
| 3 | Tarzan | Tarzan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 film | compound |
| 4 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughs | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 film | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kookaburra | det |
| 7 | kookaburra | kookaburra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughs | nsubj |
| 8 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 jungle | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 jungle | det |
| 11 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 jungle | amod |
| 12 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughs | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | a kookaburra | in a African jungle; in a Tarzan film | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in film=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.
Sentence 2: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Kookaburras live only in the Arctic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kookaburras | kookaburra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Arctic | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Arctic | det |
| 6 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Kookaburras | the Arctic | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Kookaburras live in Australia, not Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kookaburras | kookaburra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Australia | case |
| 4 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Africa | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Africa | advmod |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Kookaburras | Africa | Australia | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location |
Option 3
Kookaburras never make any sound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kookaburras | kookaburra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present | Kookaburras | any sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, kookaburras live in every jungle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 kookaburras | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | kookaburras | kookaburra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 jungle | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 jungle | det |
| 7 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Nothing kookaburras | every jungle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location |
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