Test 1 · The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and rei…

«Rudolph's nose literally glows, it's science» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nose, science · What happens: glow, be · To what, where: science

This is test 1 of lesson 106 «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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	_	6 glows	punct
2	Rudolph	Rudolph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nose	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rudolph	case
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glows	nsubj
5	literally	literally	ADV	_	6 glows	advmod
6	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 science	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 science	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 science	cop
10	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glows	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 science	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 science	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 glows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	glow in a quote	present	Rudolph's nose		literally property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	nose	science		tree rules
3	is	present	science		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

No, reindeer have no noses at all

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	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 noses	det
6	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 noses	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	reindeer	no noses		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

Option 2

Yes, but only on Christmas Eve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Christmas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Christmas	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Christmas	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Christmas	case
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Christmas	flat

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, reindeer noses really do glow bright red in the dark, just like a lamp

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 glow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 noses	compound
4	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 glow	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 glow	advmod
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 glow	aux
7	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 red	amod
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 glow	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glow	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lamp	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 lamp	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 lamp	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lamp	det
17	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present · do-support	reindeer noses			the dark		like a lamp; red property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Real reindeer noses are full of warm blood vessels, but they do not glow

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noses	amod
2	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noses	compound
3	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 vessels	case
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vessels	amod
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vessels	compound
9	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glow	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 glow	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 glow	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 glow	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 glow	advmod
15	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 full	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Real reindeer noses					of warm blood vessels; full property	tree rules
2	not glow	present · do-support	noses = nose						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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