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Test 9 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

An animal has scales, dry skin and lays leathery eggs in sand. What is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: have, lay, be · To what, where: scales, leathery eggs, sand

This is test 9 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 scales, dry skin and lays leathery eggs in sand.

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	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 skin	punct
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scales	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lays	cc
9	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
10	leathery	leathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eggs	amod
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lays	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 sand	case
13	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lays	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a animal	scales and dry skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient
2	lay	present	a animal not said here	leathery eggs		sand			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination

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

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 2

A bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

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 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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