Test 7 · The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and ant…

«the white rhino's not even white, someone's having us on» Why the name?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: white rhino · What happens: not be, have on · To what, where: us

This is test 7 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	_	8 white	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rhino	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rhino	amod
4	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 white	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 white	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 white	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 white	advmod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 having	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 someone	case
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 white	parataxis
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 having	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	12 having	compound:prt
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 having	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 name	det
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Why	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 white	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the white rhino					white property	tree rules
2	have on in a quote	gerund		us					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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

Babies are born white and go grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 born	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 born	conj
7	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		Babies				white property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	go	infinitive						grey property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It turns white in the winter like an Arctic fox

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turns	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 fox	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fox	det
9	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fox	amod
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It				winter	like a Arctic fox; white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

It may come from a word meaning «wide», for its mouth

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 come	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 word	acl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 wide	punct
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meaning	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 wide	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	may	It			a word		for word's mouth	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location
2	mean	gerund	a word not said here	wide					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wide=Topic

Option 4

It rolls in white mud every day

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 rolls	nsubj
2	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mud	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mud	amod
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolls	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolls	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	It			white mud	day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory

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