Test 3 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals
A small animal has six legs, wings and three body parts, but it lives in a pond. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: small animal, animal · What happens: have, live, be · To what, where: six legs, pond
This is test 3 · ★★ 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 small animal has six legs, wings and three body parts, but it lives in a pond.
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 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 legs | nummod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wings | punct |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 legs | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 parts | cc |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 parts | nummod |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parts | compound |
| 12 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 legs | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lives | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 lives | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nsubj |
| 16 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pond | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pond | det |
| 19 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lives | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a small animal | six legs and wings and three body parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | present | animal | a pond | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=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: 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
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 2
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.
Option 3
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 4
A spider
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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