Test 11 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

«all zebras look the same, how do they tell each other apart lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: zebras · What happens: look, tell, be · To what, where: same, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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	_	4 look	punct
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 zebras	det
3	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 tell	advmod
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	parataxis
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 tell	obj
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	apart	apart	ADV	_	11 tell	advmod
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 look	discourse
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	all zebras	the same		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	zebras = zebra	each	apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
3	is	present			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

Only the colour of their eyes is different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 colour	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 different	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 colour	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 different	cop
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the colour of their eyes					different property	tree rules

Option 2

They cannot tell each other apart at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 tell	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	They	each		all		apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient

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

Every zebra's stripe pattern is unique

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 zebra	det
2	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pattern	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 zebra	case
4	stripe	stripe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pattern	compound
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unique	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 unique	cop
7	unique	unique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every zebra's stripe pattern					unique property	tree rules
2	pattern		every zebra						nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They wear little name tags clipped to their ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wear	nsubj
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tags	amod
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tags	compound
5	tags	tag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	obj
6	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tags	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 ears	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	They	little name tags					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tag=Source
2	clip	participle		little name tags not said here				to tags's ears	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to ear=Co-Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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