Test 11 · ★★ · Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?

Why do elephants leave some acacia trees alone even when they are hungry?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: elephants · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: acacia trees

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 149 «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» 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	4 leave	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leave	nsubj
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 trees	det
6	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leave	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 hungry	advmod
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 hungry	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hungry	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	cop
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leave	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · do-support	elephants	some acacia trees				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	is	present	elephants = elephant					hungry 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

The trees have no leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the trees	no leaves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 2

Mice live in those trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Mice			that trees			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ants inside the thorns bite the soft inside of their trunks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	nsubj
2	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 thorns	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thorns	det
4	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ants	nmod
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inside	det
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 inside	amod
8	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bite	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trunks	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 trunks	nmod:poss
11	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 inside	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Ants inside the thorns	the soft inside of Ants's trunks					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Patient

Option 4

The trees are too tall for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tall	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the trees					for them = they; tall property	tree rules

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