Test 11 · ★★ · Wild animals and tall tales

Why do tall tales about wild animals spread so easily?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tall tales · What happens: do, spread

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	advcl
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	amod
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tales	nmod
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 easily	advmod
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 spread	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	tall tales about wild animals not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread	present	tall tales about wild animals					easily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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.

The options

Option 1

Scientists invent them to test children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 invent	nsubj
2	invent	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 invent	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 test	mark
5	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 invent	advcl
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	present	Scientists	them = they					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result
2	test	to-infinitive	Scientists not said here	children					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 2

Old books are always accurate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 books	amod
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accurate	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accurate	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 accurate	advmod
5	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Old books					accurate, always property	tree rules

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

We see wild animals from far away or in films, and a good story beats a dull truth

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 away	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	2 see	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 films	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 films	case
10	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beats	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beats	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 story	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 story	amod
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beats	nsubj
16	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 truth	det
18	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 truth	amod
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	We	wild animals					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
2	beat	present	a good story	a dull truth					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location truth=Theme

Option 4

Animals behave differently on different days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 behave	nsubj
2	behave	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	differently	differently	ADV	_	2 behave	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 behave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	present	Animals				day	differently property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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