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Test 4 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals

A sea turtle comes onto the beach at night. What is it most likely doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sea turtle, turtle · What happens: come, be · To what, where: beach

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 sea turtle comes onto the beach at night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 turtle	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turtle	compound
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a sea turtle			the beach	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto beach=Initial_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 most likely doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doing	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 doing	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 doing	advmod
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	turtle					do, likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Feeding its young with milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 young	nmod:poss
3	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feeding	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 milk	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feeding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund		its young				with milk	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient

Option 2

Looking for leaves to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 leaves	case
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for leaves	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for leaf=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Laying its eggs in the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eggs	nmod:poss
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Laying	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sand	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund		its eggs		the sand			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination

Option 4

Breathing with its lungs at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 lungs	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lungs	nmod:poss
4	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Breathing	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Breathing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	gerund				last		with its lungs	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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