Test 17 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

my cousin says a girl sat on an ant hill in Texas and "got stung 500 times, her whole body went red". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, girl, whole body · What happens: say, sit, get, go, be, exaggerate · To what, where: ant hill, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 hill	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hill	det
9	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hill	compound
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Texas	case
12	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
16	stung	stung	ADV	_	15 got	advmod
17	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 got	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 body	nmod:poss
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 body	amod
22	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	parataxis
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 went	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 prob	advmod
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 prob	cop
29	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
30	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit	past	a girl		a ant hill		in Texas	tree rules
3	get in a quote	past	a girl not said here			time	stung property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	go in a quote	past	girl's whole body				red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present		prob				tree rules
6	exaggerate	participle		prob 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

That fire ants sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ants	compound
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sting	nsubj
4	sting	sting	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	sting	present	fire ants						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

That stings can hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 stings	det
2	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	can	that stings						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The exact number; still, fire ants sting many times, so keep away

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
2	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 number	amod
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sting	punct
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 ants	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 still	punct
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ants	compound
8	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sting	nsubj
9	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 number	parataxis
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sting	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 keep	advmod
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sting	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	present	fire ants				time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep away	infinitive	fire ants not said here					away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

That big ant hills exist in Texas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ant	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ant	amod
3	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hills	compound
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 exist	nsubj
5	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Texas	case
7	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 exist	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	ant hills			Texas			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in texas=Location

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