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Test 2 · ★★ · Wild animals and tall tales

Asking "is a tortoise leaving its shell like me leaving my skeleton?" Why is that a good comparison?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Asking, tortoise · What happens: ask, be, leave · To what, where: tortoise, shell, skeleton, good comparison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Asking "is a tortoise leaving its shell like me leaving my skeleton?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tortoise	csubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Asking	punct
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tortoise	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tortoise	det
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tortoise	acl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shell	nmod:poss
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaving	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 leaving	obl
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 leaving	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skeleton	nmod:poss
13	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaving	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tortoise	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tortoise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Asking	a tortoise					tree rules
3	leave in a quote	gerund	a tortoise not said here	tortoise's shell				like me	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
4	leave in a quote	gerund	a tortoise not said here	my skeleton					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=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: Why is that a good comparison?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 comparison	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 comparison	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 comparison	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 comparison	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comparison	amod
6	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 comparison	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good comparison					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because people could also step out of their skeletons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 step	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 step	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 step	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 step	advmod
5	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 skeletons	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 skeletons	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skeletons	nmod:poss
9	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 step	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step out	could	people	people's skeletons					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location skeleton=Theme

Option 2

Because tortoises have no skeleton at all inside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 all	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 skeleton	det
5	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	tortoises	no skeleton					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Because the shell really is its ribs and backbone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 shell	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shell	det
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	really	really	ADV	_	7 ribs	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ribs	cop
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ribs	nmod:poss
7	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shell	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 backbone	cc
9	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ribs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		shell's ribs and backbone					tree rules

Option 4

Because tortoise shells are made of a kind of human bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shells	compound
3	shells	shell	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	_	8 kind	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bone	case
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bone	amod
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		tortoise shells				of a kind of human bone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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