Test 1 · Mammals and how they care for their young
A farmer finds a newborn calf. What will it need to drink in its first days?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: find, need, drink · To what, where: newborn calf
This is test 1 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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 farmer finds a newborn calf.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 calf | det |
| 5 | newborn | newborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 calf | amod |
| 6 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a farmer | a newborn calf | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Topic |
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 will it need to drink in its first days?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 need | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drink | mark |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 need | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 days | nmod:poss |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 days | amod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drink | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | future | farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | farmer not said here | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Fresh orange juice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 juice | amod |
| 2 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 juice | amod |
| 3 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Its mother's milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 milk | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mother | case |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nothing for several weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 weeks | case |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeks | amod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Clean pond water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 2 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | compound |
| 3 | water | water | 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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