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Test 8 · ★ · Fish, frogs and reptiles

A frog sits still and an insect flies near. What happens next?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frog, insect · What happens: sit, fly, happen

This is test 8 · ★ 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 frog sits still and an insect flies near.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 sits	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flies	cc
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 insect	det
7	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flies	nsubj
8	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
9	near	near	ADV	_	8 flies	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	a frog				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly	present	a insect					near property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 happens next?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 happens	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The frog shoots out its long, sticky tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoots	nsubj
3	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 shoots	compound:prt
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tongue	nmod:poss
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tongue	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
8	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tongue	amod
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoots	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot out	present	the frog	frog's long sticky tongue					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The frog stings it with poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stings	nsubj
3	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stings	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 poison	case
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	present	the frog	it				with poison	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with poison=Instrument

Option 3

The frog chases it with its claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chases	nsubj
3	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chases	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 claws	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 claws	nmod:poss
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chases	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	the frog	it				with frog's claws	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The frog waits for it to land in its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waits	nsubj
3	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 land	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 land	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 land	mark
7	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waits	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	the frog						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land	to-infinitive	frog			frog's mouth			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mouth=Destination

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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