Test 7 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

«Melman's from Central Park Zoo so real giraffes live there» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: real giraffes, Central Park Zoo · What happens: live, be · To what, where: Central Park Zoo

This is test 7 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	_	7 Zoo	punct
2	Melman	Melman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zoo	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Melman	case
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 Zoo	case
5	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zoo	flat
6	Park	Park	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zoo	compound
7	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 right	nsubj
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 live	advmod
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 giraffes	amod
10	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 live	nsubj
11	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Zoo	acl:relcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 live	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 Zoo	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	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	real giraffes	Melman's Central Park Zoo not said here		there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme zoo=Location
2	is	present	Melman's Central Park Zoo					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

The real Central Park Zoo is small and keeps no giraffes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Zoo	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Zoo	amod
3	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zoo	flat
4	Park	Park	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zoo	compound
5	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keeps	cc
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 giraffes	det
11	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the real Central Park Zoo					small property	tree rules
2	keep	present	the real Central Park Zoo not said here	no giraffes					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme

Option 2

Right, they roam the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 roam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 roam	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 roam	nsubj
4	roam	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 park	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roam	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	present	they	the park					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Trajectory

Option 3

Right, all zoos have giraffes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 zoos	det
4	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all zoos	giraffes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Patient

Option 4

Right, it has twenty giraffes living there, the biggest herd in America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 giraffes	nummod
6	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 giraffes	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 living	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 herd	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 herd	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 herd	amod
12	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giraffes	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 America	case
14	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 herd	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	twenty giraffes and the biggest herd in America					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Patient
2	live	gerund	twenty giraffes and the biggest herd in America not said here			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/t7/