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Test 8 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

A boy picks up his gecko by the tail and the tail drops off. What does this show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, tail, this · What happens: pick up, drop off, show · To what, where: gecko

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 64 «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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

Sentence 1: A boy picks up his gecko by the tail and the tail drops off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	nsubj
3	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 picks	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gecko	nmod:poss
6	gecko	gecko	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tail	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drops	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tail	det
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drops	nsubj
13	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 drops	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	a boy	boy's gecko				by the tail	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gecko=Topic
2	drop off	present	the tail						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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 does this show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

The gecko was already very ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gecko	det
2	gecko	gecko	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ill	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
4	already	already	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gecko					ill property	tree rules

Option 2

The boy pulled too gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 pulled	advmod
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the boy					gently property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many lizards drop their tail to escape when grabbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lizards	amod
2	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drop	nsubj
3	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 escape	mark
7	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drop	advcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grabbed	advmod
9	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 escape	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	Many lizards	lizards's tail					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	escape	to-infinitive	Many lizards not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grab	participle	Many lizards not said here						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Geckos' tails are made of rubber and come off easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tails	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Geckos	case
3	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rubber	case
7	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 come	compound:prt
11	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Geckos's tails				of rubber	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	come off	infinitive						easily property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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