Test 1 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

«zebras are white horses with black paint basically» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: zebras, white horses · What happens: be · To what, where: white horses

This is test 1 of lesson 128 «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 horses	punct
2	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 horses	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horses	amod
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 right	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 paint	case
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 paint	amod
8	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horses	nmod
9	basically	basically	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 basically	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	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	zebras	white horses				with black paint	tree rules
2	is	present	white horses					basically, 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Zebras have black skin and are not tame horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skin	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 horses	cc
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 horses	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 horses	advmod
8	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horses	amod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Zebras	black skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	not is a	present	Zebras not said here	tame horses					tree rules

Option 2

Right, they are just white horses painted with black stripes by nature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 horses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horses	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horses	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 white	advmod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horses	amod
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 horses	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stripes	case
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stripes	amod
11	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 painted	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 nature	case
13	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	white horses					tree rules
2	paint	participle		white horses not said here				with black stripes; by nature	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by nature=Destination

Option 3

Wrong, zebras are a kind of cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 zebras	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	_	8 cow	case
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wrong zebras	a kind				of cow	tree rules

Option 4

Right, any horse can become a zebra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 become	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 zebra	det
8	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	can	any horse	a zebra					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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