Test 5 · The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and ant…

«gonna grind up some rhino horn, it's medicine» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: grind up, be · To what, where: rhino horn, medicine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	_	3 grind	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 grind	discourse
3	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	csubj
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grind	compound:prt
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 horn	det
6	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horn	compound
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grind	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 medicine	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 medicine	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 medicine	cop
11	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horn	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 grind	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 true	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grind up in a quote	present		some rhino horn and medicine		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present	it	medicine		tree rules
3	is	present			true 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 · ← Mova's choice

It is safe medicine because horns grow back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 medicine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 medicine	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 medicine	amod
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 grow	mark
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	nsubj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 medicine	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	safe medicine					tree rules
2	grow back	present	horns						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is a strong medicine that doctors use for fevers and pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 medicine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 medicine	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 medicine	amod
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 use	obj
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	nsubj
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 medicine	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 fevers	case
10	fevers	fever	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pain	cc
12	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fevers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a strong medicine					tree rules
2	use	present	doctors	a strong medicine				for fevers and pain	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Theme for fever=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is keratin like your nails and cures nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keratin	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keratin	cop
3	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 nails	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nails	nmod:poss
6	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keratin	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cures	cc
8	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keratin	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 cures	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	keratin				like your nails	tree rules
2	cure	present		nothing					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer nothing=Source

Option 4

It works only if the rhino was a white one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 one	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rhino	det
6	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the rhino	a white one					tree rules

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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