Test 11 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

how can u tell a mammal

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u · What happens: tell · To what, where: mammal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 24 «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mammal	det
6	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	u	a mammal					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mammal=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

It has hair or fur and feeds its young milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 fur	cc
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hair	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feeds	cc
7	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 milk	nmod:poss
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 milk	amod
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	hair or fur					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	feed	present		fur's young milk					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme

Option 2

It has feathers and lays eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lays	cc
5	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	feathers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	lay	present		eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It has scales and breathes with gills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 breathes	cc
5	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 gills	case
7	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breathes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	scales					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient
2	breathe	present						with gills	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It has six legs and a hard shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shell	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shell	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shell	amod
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	six legs and a hard shell					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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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