Test 16 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Josh says gators on land are slow and harmless. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Josh, gators · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gators	gator	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slow	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 land	case
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gators	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slow	cop
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 harmless	cc
9	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slow	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slow	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slow	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Josh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	gators on land	slow property	tree rules
3	be		gators on land not said here		tree rules
4	be		gators on land not said here		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they can lunge very fast over short distances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lunge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lunge	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lunge	aux
5	lunge	lunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 lunge	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 distances	case
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 distances	amod
10	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lunge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lunge	can	they					over short distances; fast property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they never come out on land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come out	present	they			land		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, they are only fast in water, never on land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 water	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 water	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 water	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 land	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 land	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 land	case
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			water and land		fast property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, unless they are hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hungry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 hungry	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					hungry property	tree rules

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