Test 13 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Jake reckons the kiwi's a fruit bat from Australia. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, kiwi · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: fruit bat, Australia

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kiwi	det
4	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bat	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bat	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bat	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bat	compound
8	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Australia	case
10	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bat	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Jake						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the kiwi	a fruit bat		Australia			tree rules

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

No, it is a marsupial from the forests of Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 marsupial	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marsupial	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 marsupial	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 marsupial	det
6	marsupial	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 forests	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forests	det
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 marsupial	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Canada	case
11	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 forests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a marsupial		the forests of Canada			tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it lives in a pouch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pouch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pouch	det
7	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	it			a pouch			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is a bat that flies at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 bat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bat	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bat	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bat	det
6	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flies	nsubj
8	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bat	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a bat					tree rules
2	fly	present	a bat				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, the kiwi is a flightless bird of New Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kiwi	det
4	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Zealand	case
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Zealand	flat
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kiwi	a flightless bird				of New Zealand	tree rules

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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