Test 1 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals
A new animal is found in a cave: it flies, has fur and feeds its young milk. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal · What happens: find, fly, have, feed, be · To what, where: new animal, cave, fur, young milk
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» 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 new animal is found in a cave: it flies, has fur and feeds its young milk.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 flies | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flies | nsubj |
| 11 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flies | conj |
| 14 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feeds | cc |
| 16 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 milk | nmod:poss |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 milk | amod |
| 19 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feeds | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | a new animal | a cave | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly | present | animal | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | animal not said here | fur | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feed | present | animal not said here | animal's young milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=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.
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 · ✓ the right answer
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 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
An insect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 insect | det |
| 2 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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