Test 6 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

Which living thing is the smallest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: living thing · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 thing	det
2	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smallest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smallest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smallest	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 smallest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which living thing					small property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1

A mushroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mushroom	det
2	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A grain of mould you can see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grain	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 mould	case
4	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grain	nmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grain	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	you	a grain of mould not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A bacterium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bacterium	det
2	bacterium	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

An ant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ant	det
2	ant	ant	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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