Test 4 · ★ · Food chains and food webs

Which chain is drawn correctly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: draw · To what, where: chain

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 chain	det
2	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drawn	aux:pass
4	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 drawn	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 drawn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present · passive		which chain				correctly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Bird → caterpillar → leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caterpillar	compound
2	→	→	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Bird	flat
3	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	→	→	SYM	_	5 leaf	punct
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caterpillar	conj

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

Option 2

Caterpillar → leaf → bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leaf	compound
2	→	→	SYM	_	1 Caterpillar	flat
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
4	→	→	SYM	_	5 bird	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Leaf → caterpillar → bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caterpillar	compound
2	→	→	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Leaf	flat
3	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	→	→	SYM	_	5 bird	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caterpillar	conj

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

Option 4

Leaf → bird → caterpillar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	→	→	SYM	_	3 bird	punct
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaf	conj
4	→	→	SYM	_	5 caterpillar	punct
5	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaf	conj

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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