Test 4 · The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and ant…

My mate says giraffes have loads more neck bones than us. Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, giraffes · What happens: say, have · To what, where: loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: My mate says giraffes have loads more neck bones than us.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 bones	amod
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	compound
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	giraffes	loads					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.

Sentence 2: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a giraffe has about fifty neck bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 giraffe	det
4	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 fifty	advmod
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bones	nummod
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	compound
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a giraffe	fifty neck bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, both have seven, but a giraffe's are very long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 long	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 giraffe	det
9	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 long	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 giraffe	case
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	both	seven					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient
2	is	present	both not said here					long property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it has one extra neck bone for each metre of its neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bone	nummod
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bone	amod
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bone	compound
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 metre	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 metre	det
11	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bone	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 neck	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 metre	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	one extra neck bone				for each metre of metre's neck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 4

No, a giraffe has only three neck bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 giraffe	det
4	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 three	advmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bones	nummod
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	compound
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a giraffe	three neck bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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