Test 1 · Noah and the Tower of Babel

my sis says Noah took just one of every animal. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sis, Noah · What happens: say, take · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 3 «Noah and the Tower of Babel» of the religion ethics 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sis	nmod:poss
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 animal	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sis						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	past	Noah	one of every animal					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 · ← Mova's choice

No, he took only the birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 birds	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he		the birds				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination

Option 2

Yes, one of each was enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 enough	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 enough	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	nmod

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

Option 3

Yes, and all the rest of the animals swam along beside the ark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swam	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swam	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rest	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swam	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 animals	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rest	nmod
10	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	along	along	ADV	_	10 swam	advmod
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 ark	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ark	det
14	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	all rest of the animals			the ark		along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside ark=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, the story says pairs, so they could have young after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 have	obj
13	after	after	ADP	_	12 young	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the story	pairs					tree rules
2	have	could	pairs = pair	young					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient

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