Test 10 · ★★ · Wild animals and tall tales

A huge elephant suddenly steps back when a leaf blows across its feet. What does that suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: huge elephant, leaf, that · What happens: step back, blow, suggest · To what, where: feet

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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 huge elephant suddenly steps back when a leaf blows across its feet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 elephant	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elephant	amod
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steps	nsubj
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 steps	advmod
5	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 steps	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 blows	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 leaf	det
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blows	nsubj
10	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 steps	advcl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blows	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 steps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step back	present	a huge elephant					suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow	present	a leaf			leaf's feet			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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 that suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	that						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

Elephants can startle at sudden small movements, not mice in particular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 startle	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 startle	aux
3	startle	startle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 movements	case
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 movements	amod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 movements	amod
7	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 startle	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mice	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 mice	advmod
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 movements	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 particular	case
12	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 startle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	startle	can	Elephants			sudden small movements and mice		in particular	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Elephants can't see their feet at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Elephants	Elephants's feet		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus

Option 3

Elephants are terrified only of mice, because mice can climb up their trunks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 terrified	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 terrified	cop
3	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 mice	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mice	case
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 terrified	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 climb	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 climb	mark
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 climb	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 climb	aux
11	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 terrified	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 climb	compound:prt
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 trunks	nmod:poss
14	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Elephants					of mice; terrified property	tree rules
2	climb up	can	mice	mice's trunks					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=Theme

Option 4

The leaf was a hidden mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaf	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mouse	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mouse	amod
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the leaf	a hidden mouse					tree rules

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