Test 4 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands
A monkey, a parrot and a sloth spend almost all their lives high in the trees. In which layer do they live?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: spend, live · To what, where: lives, layer
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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 monkey, a parrot and a sloth spend almost all their lives high in the trees.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spend | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 parrot | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parrot | det |
| 5 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 monkey | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sloth | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sloth | det |
| 8 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 monkey | conj |
| 9 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 all | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 lives | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spend | obj |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lives | amod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 high | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | a monkey and a parrot and a sloth | monkey's lives | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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: In which layer do they live?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 layer | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 layer | det |
| 3 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · do-support | monkey | which layer | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in layer=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The roots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roots | det |
| 2 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The riverbed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 riverbed | det |
| 2 | riverbed | riverbed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The canopy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canopy | det |
| 2 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The forest floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floor | compound |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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