Test 5 · ★ · Fish, frogs and reptiles
A pet snake has dull, cloudy eyes and soon leaves behind a long, thin, empty skin. What happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pet snake · What happens: have, leave, happen · To what, where: dull cloudy eyes, long thin empty skin
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 74 «Fish, frogs and reptiles» 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 pet snake has dull, cloudy eyes and soon leaves behind a long, thin, empty skin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 2 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snake | compound |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dull | punct |
| 7 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaves | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 leaves | advmod |
| 11 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 skin | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 skin | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thin | punct |
| 18 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 skin | amod |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a pet snake | dull cloudy eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | a pet snake not said here | a long thin empty skin | soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind skin=Location |
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: What happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It was sick and lost its scales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sick | cop |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lost | cc |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sick | conj |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 scales | nmod:poss |
| 7 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | its scales | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Eventuality |
Option 2
It changed into a new kind of snake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 kind | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 snake | case |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | It | into a new kind of snake result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kind=Result |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It shed its old skin as it grew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shed | nsubj |
| 2 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 skin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skin | amod |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shed | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shed | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past | It | its old skin | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | skin | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Another snake lost its skin there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 skin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lost | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | another snake | snake's skin | there | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality |
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