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Test 5 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

A lizard lies on a warm rock in the morning. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lizard · What happens: lie · To what, where: warm rock

This is test 5 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: A lizard lies on a warm rock in the morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	nsubj
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 rock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rock	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	a lizard			a warm rock	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is hiding from the rain

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	3 hiding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · progressive	It			the rain			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from rain=Beneficiary

Option 2

It is looking for water

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	3 looking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	It					for water	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for water=Theme

Option 3

It is laying its eggs there

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	3 laying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laying	aux
3	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eggs	nmod:poss
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laying	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · progressive	It	its eggs		there			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It takes its warmth from its surroundings

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 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 warmth	nmod:poss
4	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 surroundings	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 surroundings	nmod:poss
7	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It	its warmth		warmth's surroundings			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent warmth=Theme from surroundings=Initial_Location

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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