Test 4 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
A zoo keeper shows an animal that has fur, feeds its young on milk and lays eggs. Where does it come from in the wild?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo keeper, animal, keeper · What happens: show, have, feed, lay, come · To what, where: animal, fur, young, milk, eggs, wild
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A zoo keeper shows an animal that has fur, feeds its young on milk and lays eggs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 keeper | det |
| 2 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeper | compound |
| 3 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 animal | acl:relcl |
| 9 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feeds | punct |
| 11 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shows | conj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 young | nmod:poss |
| 13 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feeds | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 milk | case |
| 15 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feeds | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lays | cc |
| 17 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feeds | conj |
| 18 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lays | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a zoo keeper | a animal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a animal | fur | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | a zoo keeper not said here | keeper's young | milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | |||
| 4 | lay | present | a zoo keeper not said here | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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: Where does it come from in the wild?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 wild | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wild | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wild | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | keeper | the wild | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wild=Initial_Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Scotland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ireland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | 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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