Test 2 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

«Gloria floats like a ballerina, so hippos are great swimmers» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gloria, hippos, great swimmers · What happens: float, be · To what, where: great swimmers

This is test 2 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	_	3 floats	punct
2	Gloria	Gloria	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 floats	nsubj
3	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 ballerina	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ballerina	det
6	ballerina	ballerina	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swimmers	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 swimmers	advmod
9	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swimmers	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 swimmers	cop
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swimmers	amod
12	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 floats	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 swimmers	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swimmers	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 floats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float in a quote	present	Gloria		like a ballerina	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	hippos	great swimmers		tree rules
3	is	present	great swimmers		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

Right, they float like balloons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 float	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 float	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 float	nsubj
4	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 balloons	case
6	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	they					like balloons	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Right, they swim like seals, twisting and diving with ease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 swim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swim	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swim	nsubj
4	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 seals	case
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 twisting	punct
8	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 swim	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 diving	cc
10	diving	dive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 twisting	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 ease	case
12	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 diving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	swim	present	they	like seals	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	twist	gerund	they not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	dive	gerund	they not said here	with ease	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Right, they glide like swans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 glide	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 glide	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glide	nsubj
4	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 swans	case
6	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	present	they					like swans	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real hippos sink and bounce along the river bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hippos	amod
2	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sink	nsubj
3	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bounce	cc
5	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	conj
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bottom	compound
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	Real hippos						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bounce	present	Real hippos not said here			the river bottom			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory

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