Test 3 · ★ · The polar zone: polar bears

«polar bears are white all over, even the skin, right» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: polar bears, skin · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 105 «The polar zone: polar bears» 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 white	punct
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 white	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 white	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 skin	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 skin	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skin	det
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
13	right	right	ADV	_	17 true	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 skin	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	polar bears					over, white property	tree rules
2	is	present	the skin					right, 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

Yes, white skin and white hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 skin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skin	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skin	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hair	cc
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The skin is black, and the clear hairs only look white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 black	cop
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hairs	det
8	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hairs	amod
9	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 look	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 black	conj
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the skin					black property	tree rules
2	look	present	the clear hairs					white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

No, the skin is green from algae

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 green	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 green	cop
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 algae	case
8	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 green	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the skin			algae		green property	tree rules

Option 4

No, the skin is pink like a pig's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 pink	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pink	cop
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 pig	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pig	det
9	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 pig	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the skin					like a pig; pink property	tree rules

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