Test 10 · ★ · Sleep and the body clock
Mila: "Do flowers have body clocks, miss?" What's the answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mila, answer · What happens: have, be · To what, where: body clocks
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 127 «Sleep and the body clock» of the world 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: Mila: "Do flowers have body clocks, miss?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mila | Mila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 4 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clocks | compound |
| 8 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 miss | punct |
| 10 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clocks | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Mila | body clocks and miss | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=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's the answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, but only roses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 roses | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 roses | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 roses | advmod |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, some open in the morning and close in the evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 open | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 open | det |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 close | cc |
| 9 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 close | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | evening | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
No, plants never keep time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 keep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | present | plants | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
No, only animals with brains do
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 animals | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 animals | advmod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 brains | case |
| 6 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 animals | nmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | animals with brains | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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