Test 9 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

«echidna's just an Aussie hedgehog» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aussie hedgehog · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 104 «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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	_	7 hedgehog	punct
2	echidna	echidna	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hedgehog	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 echidna	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 hedgehog	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hedgehog	det
6	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hedgehog	amod
7	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 hedgehog	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hedgehog	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hedgehog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	echidna's Aussie hedgehog					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, it is the same animal with a new name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 animal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 animal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 name	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 name	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 name	amod
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the same animal				with a new name	tree rules

Option 2

No, it is a kind of porcupine bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	compound
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind				of porcupine bird	tree rules

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

It looks like one but is an egg-laying mammal

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 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 looks	obl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 mammal	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mammal	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mammal	det
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laying	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 egg	punct
10	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 mammal	amod
11	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	It		like one	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	lay	gerund				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		a laying mammal		tree rules

Option 4

Yes, hedgehogs in Australia grow longer noses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hedgehogs	nmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 grow	advmod
8	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	hedgehogs in Australia	noses				long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme

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