Test 6 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals
An animal lays eggs, has fur and a beak like a duck. Which group is it in?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal, group · What happens: lay, have, be in · To what, where: eggs, fur, beak
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: An animal lays eggs, has fur and a beak like a duck.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lays | nsubj |
| 3 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lays | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lays | conj |
| 7 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beak | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beak | det |
| 10 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fur | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 duck | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 duck | det |
| 13 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beak | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a animal | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a animal not said here | fur and a beak like a duck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient |
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: Which group is it in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 group | det |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 is | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in | present | which group | beak | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Mammals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Reptiles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Amphibians
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amphibians | amphibian | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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