Test 12 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

Mia reckons frogs are reptiles cos they're cold-blooded. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, frogs · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: reptiles

This is test 12 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reptiles	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reptiles	cop
5	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reckons	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 blooded	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blooded	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blooded	cop
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blooded	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 cold	punct
11	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mia			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	frogs	reptiles		tree rules
3	is	present	frogs = frog		blooded property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, frogs are amphibians with smooth, moist skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 amphibians	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 amphibians	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 amphibians	cop
5	amphibians	amphibian	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 skin	case
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skin	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smooth	punct
9	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skin	amod
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 amphibians	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	frogs	amphibians				with smooth moist skin	tree rules

Option 2

No, frogs are fish because they swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fish	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 swim	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swim	nsubj
8	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	frogs	fish					tree rules
2	swim	present	frogs = frog						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, all cold-blooded animals are reptiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 reptiles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animals	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blooded	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct
6	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reptiles	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reptiles	cop
9	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all blooded animals	reptiles					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, frogs have dry, scaly skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 skin	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct
7	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 skin	amod
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	frogs	dry scaly skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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