Test 3 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

«hippos look chill, can we paddle next to one» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hippos, we, best answer · What happens: look, paddle, be · To what, where: one

This is test 3 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 look	punct
2	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paddle	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 paddle	aux
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 paddle	nsubj
8	paddle	paddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	conj
9	next	next	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 paddle	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 one	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	hippos		chill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	paddle in a quote	can	we	one		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

No, hippos are among the most dangerous large animals in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 hippos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 animals	cop
5	among	among	ADP	_	10 animals	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 dangerous	advmod
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animals	amod
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Africa	case
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 animals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	hippos			Africa		among the dangerous large animals	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they are gentle grass eaters that never hurt anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 eaters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eaters	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eaters	cop
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eaters	amod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaters	compound
7	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hurt	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 hurt	advmod
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaters	acl:relcl
11	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	gentle grass eaters					tree rules
2	not hurt	past	gentle grass eaters	anybody					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Patient

Option 3

Yes, they are slow and sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slow	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleepy	cc
7	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					slow property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Yes, if you bring them carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 bring	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
5	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	you	them = they					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination carrot=Theme

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