Test 9 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

Why might zebras like to graze near giraffes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zebras · What happens: graze

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 graze	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 graze	aux
3	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 graze	nsubj
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 graze	mark
5	to	to	PART	_	6 graze	mark
6	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 giraffes	case
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 graze	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 graze	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	might	zebras					near giraffes	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Giraffes share their leaves with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 leaves	nmod:poss
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 share	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	Giraffes	Giraffes's leaves				with leaves = leaf	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Giraffes are tall and spot lions early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tall	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spot	cc
5	spot	spot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tall	conj
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tall	nsubj
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 tall	advmod

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

Option 3

Giraffes scare all flies away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	nsubj
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 flies	det
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present	Giraffes	all flies				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fly=Experiencer

Option 4

Giraffes carry zebras on their backs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 backs	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 backs	nmod:poss
6	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Giraffes	zebras		Giraffes's backs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebra=Theme

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