Test 3 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light
Ella watched a video of a slow loris tickled with its arms up and said it was so cute. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, truth · What happens: watch, tickle, say, be · To what, where: video, slow loris · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Ella watched a video of a slow loris tickled with its arms up and said it was so cute.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 video | det |
| 4 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 loris | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 loris | det |
| 7 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loris | amod |
| 8 | loris | loris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 video | nmod |
| 9 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 loris | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tickled | obl |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 tickled | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cute | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cute | aux |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 cute | advmod |
| 19 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Ella | a video of a slow loris | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tickle | participle | a slow loris not said here | with loris's arms | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with arm=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ella not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is waving hello to the camera
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 | 3 waving | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waving | aux |
| 3 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waving | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 camera | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camera | det |
| 7 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | present · progressive | It | hello | the camera | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Theme to camera=Recipient |
Option 2
It is laughing because it really likes being tickled
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 | 3 laughing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | aux |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 likes | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 likes | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 likes | advmod |
| 7 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tickled | advcl |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tickled | aux:pass |
| 9 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 laughing | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | like | present | it | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | tickle | gerund · passive | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V» |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is frightened, and the trade harms wild lorises
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 | 3 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | aux:pass |
| 3 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 harms | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 harms | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trade | det |
| 7 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harms | nsubj |
| 8 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | conj |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lorises | amod |
| 10 | lorises | loris | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 harms | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | present · passive | It | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | harm | present | the trade | wild lorises | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus loris=Experiencer |
Option 4
It is stretching after a nap
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 | 3 stretching | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretching | aux |
| 3 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 nap | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nap | det |
| 6 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretching | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | present · progressive | It | after a nap | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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