Test 8 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light
Woodpeckers do not live on Madagascar. Who does their job of finding grubs in wood there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Woodpeckers, finding grubs · What happens: not live, do, job · To what, where: Madagascar, job
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Woodpeckers do not live on Madagascar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woodpeckers | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Madagascar | case |
| 6 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | present · do-support | Woodpeckers | Madagascar | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location |
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: Who does their job of finding grubs in wood there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 job | nmod:poss |
| 4 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 grubs | case |
| 6 | finding | finding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grubs | compound |
| 7 | grubs | grub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 job | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grubs | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 wood | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Woodpeckers's job of finding grubs in wood | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | job | finding grubs in wood | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The aye-aye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 aye | det |
| 2 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aye | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 aye | punct |
| 4 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The armadillo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 armadillo | det |
| 2 | armadillo | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The slow loris
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 loris | det |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loris | amod |
| 3 | loris | loris | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The kiwi bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | kiwi | kiwi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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