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Test 3 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

An animal has smooth, damp skin, lays eggs in a pond and its babies have gills. What is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal, babies · What happens: have, lay, be · To what, where: smooth damp skin, eggs, pond, gills

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: An animal has smooth, damp skin, lays eggs in a pond and its babies have gills.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smooth	punct
6	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lays	punct
9	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lays	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pond	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pond	det
13	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lays	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 babies	nmod:poss
16	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lays	conj
18	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a animal	smooth damp skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	lay	present	a animal not said here	eggs		a pond			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in pond=Destination
3	have	present	animal's babies	gills					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=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 is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A reptile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reptile	det
2	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An amphibian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 amphibian	det
2	amphibian	amphibian	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A mammal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mammal	det
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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