Test 1 · ★ · The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps

«polar bears eat penguins at the North Pole, saw it on a mug» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: polar bears, mug · What happens: eat, see, be · To what, where: penguins, North Pole, Pole, mug

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 129 «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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 eat	punct
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 Pole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Pole	det
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Pole	compound
9	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 mug	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mug	det
15	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 mug	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	15 mug	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	polar bears	penguins	the North Pole		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Patient
2	see in a quote	past	polar bears not said here	Pole	a mug		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present	a mug			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

Impossible: wild penguins live only in the south and polar bears in the north

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 penguins	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Impossible	punct
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 penguins	amod
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 south	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 south	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 south	det
9	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bears	cc
11	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bears	amod
12	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 south	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 north	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 north	det
15	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Impossible wild penguins			the south and polar bears		in the north	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location

Option 2

True, it happens every day on the ice, because both of them live at the North Pole

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happens	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl:unmarked
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 live	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 live	mark
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 live	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 both	nmod
15	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happens	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 Pole	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Pole	det
18	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Pole	compound
19	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	it				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	both			the North Pole			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pole=Location

Option 3

True, polar bears love penguins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bears	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bears	amod
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	True polar bears	penguins					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penguin=Stimulus

Option 4

True, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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