Test 8 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands
Lions, zebras and acacia trees are seen on a wide grassy plain in Africa. Which biome is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Lions, wide grassy plain, biome
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Lions, zebras and acacia trees are seen on a wide grassy plain in Africa.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 zebras | punct |
| 3 | zebras | zebra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lions | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trees | cc |
| 5 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trees | compound |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lions | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 plain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plain | det |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plain | amod |
| 12 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plain | amod |
| 13 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 plain | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | Lions and zebras and acacia trees | a wide grassy plain in Africa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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 biome is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 biome | det |
| 2 | biome | biome | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 biome | nmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 biome | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | biome | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Rainforest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Savanna
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Savanna | Savanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Polar land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 land | amod |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | 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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