Test 6 · Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules

«a mule's just a donkey with a horse's coat» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coat · What happens: be

This is test 6 of lesson 145 «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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 donkey	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mule	det
3	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 donkey	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mule	case
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 donkey	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 donkey	det
7	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 coat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coat	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 horse	case
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 donkey	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 coat	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 coat	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 donkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a horse's coat					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

Yes, it is a donkey that grew a horse's coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 donkey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 donkey	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 donkey	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 donkey	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coat	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 horse	case
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a donkey					tree rules
2	grow	past	a donkey	a horse's coat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme

Option 2

No, it is a donkey crossed with a zebra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 donkey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 donkey	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 donkey	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 donkey	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 zebra	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 zebra	det
10	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a donkey					tree rules
2	cross	participle		a donkey not said here				with a zebra	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, it is a kind of small horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind				of small horse	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A mule has a donkey father and a horse mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mule	det
2	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 father	det
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	compound
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mother	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mother	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	compound
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a mule	a donkey father and a horse mother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient

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