Test 11 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light
A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk. What is that called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: be, call · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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: A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busiest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 busiest | cop |
| 4 | busiest | busy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dawn | case |
| 6 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busiest | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dusk | cc |
| 8 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawn | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busiest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a rabbit | dawn | busy 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.
Sentence 2: What is that called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | that | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Crepuscular
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crepuscular | Crepuscular | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nocturnal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nocturnal | Nocturnal | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Migratory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Migratory | Migratory | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hibernating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hibernating | hibernate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hibernate | gerund | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
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