Test 13 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

my brother says all animals with no backbone are insects. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, animals · What happens: say, be · To what, where: insects · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animals	det
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 insects	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 backbone	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 backbone	det
8	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 insects	cop
10	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 insects	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother					true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	all animals with no backbone	insects					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

No, insects do have a backbone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 backbone	det
7	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	insects	a backbone					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient

Option 2

Yes, every animal without a backbone is an insect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 insect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 insect	nsubj
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 backbone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 backbone	det
7	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animal	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 insect	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 insect	det
10	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every animal without a backbone	a insect					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, and insects have soft backbones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 backbones	amod
7	backbones	backbone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	insects	soft backbones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, spiders and many others have no backbone too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 others	cc
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 others	amod
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spiders	conj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 backbone	det
9	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	too	too	ADV	_	7 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	spiders and many others	no backbone					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=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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