Test 16 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

Alex says animals only bite cos they're nasty. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alex, animals · What happens: say, bite, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Thinking like an animal» 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	Alex	Alex	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bite	advmod
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 nasty	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nasty	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nasty	cop
9	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bite	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alex		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bite	present	animals		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	animals = animal	nasty 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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, only nasty animals bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 animals	advmod
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	nsubj
6	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	nasty animals						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, unless they are pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, some animals are just evil and bite people for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 evil	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 evil	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 evil	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 evil	advmod
7	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bite	cc
9	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 evil	conj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bite	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 fun	case
12	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some animals					evil property	tree rules
2	bite	present	some animals not said here	people				for fun	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, they usually bite from fear or to protect something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bite	nsubj
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 bite	advmod
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 fear	case
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bite	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 protect	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 protect	mark
10	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bite	conj
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	they			fear		usually property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	protect	to-infinitive	they not said here	something					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Beneficiary

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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