Test 3 · ★ · The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs an…

«pandas are bears that went vegetarian, innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pandas, bears · What happens: be, go, innit · To what, where: bears

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun 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	_	13 right	punct
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bears	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bears	cop
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 right	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bears	acl:relcl
7	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	pandas	bears		tree rules
2	go in a quote	past	bears		vegetarian property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	bears not said here			tree rules
4	is	present	bears		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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, they are bears whose teeth and gut still come from meat-eaters

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bears	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bears	cop
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gut	cc
9	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teeth	conj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 eaters	case
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaters	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 meat	punct
15	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	bears					tree rules
2	come	present	bears			meat eaters	still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eater=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, pandas have always eaten only plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eaten	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 eaten	advmod
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 plants	advmod
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · passive		pandas				always property	tree rules

Option 3

No, pandas eat mostly meat in the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 meat	advmod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wild	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wild	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	pandas	meat		the wild			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 4

No, pandas are really a big kind of raccoon from the mountains of China

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 kind	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 raccoon	case
10	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountains	det
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kind	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 China	case
15	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mountains	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	pandas	a big kind		the mountains of China		of raccoon	tree rules

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