Test 10 · ★★ · The penguin pool
A scruffy penguin stands alone and will not swim. What is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: scruffy penguin · What happens: stand, not swim, be
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 99 «The penguin pool» 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 scruffy penguin stands alone and will not swim.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 penguin | det |
| 2 | scruffy | scruffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penguin | amod |
| 3 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 stands | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swim | cc |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 swim | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 swim | advmod |
| 9 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stands | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a scruffy penguin | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not swim | future | a scruffy penguin not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It has forgotten how to swim after a long time on land
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 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 swim | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 swim | mark |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forgotten | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swim | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swim | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not swim | to-infinitive | land | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is moulting and has lost its waterproof coat
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 moulting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moulting | aux |
| 3 | moulting | moult | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lost | cc |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 moulting | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 coat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coat | amod |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moult | present · progressive | It | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lose | present · perfect | its waterproof coat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Eventuality |
Option 3
It is angry with the keeper
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 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | cop |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 keeper | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 keeper | det |
| 6 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 angry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | with the keeper; angry property | tree rules |
Option 4
It is too full of fish
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 | 4 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | of fish; full 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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