Test 2 · The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and ant…

«zebras are white horses with black stripes painted on, innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: zebras · What happens: be, paint on, innit · To what, where: white horses, black stripes

This is test 2 of lesson 101 «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 horses	punct
2	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 horses	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horses	amod
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stripes	case
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stripes	amod
8	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	nmod
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stripes	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 painted	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 horses	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 horses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	zebras	white horses	with black stripes	tree rules
2	paint on in a quote	participle		black stripes not said here		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	zebras not said here			tree rules
4	is	present			right 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

Yes, the stripes are just dye in the hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 dye	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stripes	det
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dye	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dye	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 dye	advmod
7	dye	dye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hair	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hair	det
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dye	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the stripes	dye		the hair			tree rules

Option 2

No, zebras are grey under all the hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 grey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grey	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grey	cop
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 hair	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hair	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hair	det
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grey	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	zebras			all hair		grey property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, and the stripes wash right off in heavy rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 wash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wash	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wash	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stripes	det
5	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wash	nsubj
6	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 off	advmod
8	off	off	ADV	_	6 wash	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 rain	case
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rain	amod
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	the stripes			heavy rain		off property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the skin is dark, so it is black with white stripes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 black	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 black	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 black	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 black	cop
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dark	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 stripes	case
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stripes	amod
14	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 black	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the skin					dark property	tree rules
2	is	present	skin					with white stripes; black property	tree rules

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