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Test 4 · ★★ · Wild animals and tall tales

In a cartoon, a camel's hump goes flat and water pours out. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hump, water · What happens: go, pour out, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon, a camel's hump goes flat and water pours out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 camel	det
6	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hump	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 camel	case
8	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goes	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pours	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pours	nsubj
13	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 pours	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	a camel's hump			a cartoon		flat property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location
2	pour out	present	water						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Camels keep water in their ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Camels	water		Camels's ears			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in ear=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Humps hold fat, not water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 water	advmod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Humps	fat and water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, humps are water bottles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 humps	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bottles	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bottles	cop
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottles	compound
6	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing humps	water bottles					tree rules

Option 4

The water should be fizzy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fizzy	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fizzy	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fizzy	cop
5	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	the water					fizzy property	tree rules

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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