Test 6 · Life cycles

Why can a young frog leave the water but a young tadpole cannot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young frog · What happens: leave · To what, where: water

This is test 6 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 leave	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frog	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frog	amod
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	nsubj
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 can	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tadpole	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tadpole	amod
12	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 can	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	advcl
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 can	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	can	a young frog	the water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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 tadpole has no eyes yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tadpole	det
2	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 eyes	det
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the tadpole	no eyes			yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The frog has lungs and legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 legs	cc
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lungs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the frog	lungs and legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lung=Patient

Option 3

The tadpole is afraid of land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tadpole	det
2	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tadpole					of land; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

The frog has bigger gills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 gills	amod
5	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the frog	bigger gills					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Patient

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