Test 2 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell
You find a skull of an unknown animal with large eyes facing forward. What was it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, large eyes · What happens: find, face, be · To what, where: skull
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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: You find a skull of an unknown animal with large eyes facing forward.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 skull | det |
| 4 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 animal | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 7 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animal | amod |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skull | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animal | nmod |
| 12 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 eyes | acl |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 facing | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | You | a skull of a unknown animal with large eyes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Topic | ||||
| 2 | face | gerund | large eyes not said here | forward property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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 was it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | skull | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A hunter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A grass-eater that hides from hunters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eater | det |
| 2 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eater | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grass | punct |
| 4 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hides | nsubj |
| 6 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eater | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hunters | case |
| 8 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hides | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a grass eater | hunters | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from hunter=Beneficiary |
Option 3
An animal that lived only underground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 animal | acl:relcl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 underground | advmod |
| 6 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a animal | underground property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A blind cave animal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animal | amod |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animal | compound |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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