Test 3 · ★★ · Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?

«saw it on telly, elephant backed off from a mouse, so it's proven» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: see, back off, prove, be · To what, where: it, telly, elephant, mouse

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 telly	case
5	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 elephant	punct
7	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telly	appos
8	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 elephant	acl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 backed	compound:prt
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 mouse	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 backed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 proven	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 proven	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 proven	nsubj:pass
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 proven	aux:pass
17	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 proven	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 proven	xcomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	it	telly		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	back off in a quote	participle	elephant not said here		from a mouse	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from mouse=Source
3	prove in a quote	present · passive	mouse			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present			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

Yes, one test proves it forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 proves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 test	nummod
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proves	nsubj
5	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proves	obj
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 proves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	one test	it				forever property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

No, the elephant was really scared of the camera and the people filming it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 camera	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 camera	det
10	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 people	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 camera	conj
14	filming	film	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 people	acl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 filming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the elephant					of the camera and the people; scared property	tree rules
2	film	gerund	the people not said here	elephant					vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and all elephants do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 elephants	det
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	all elephants	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One test is not proof; it may just have been startled by the movement

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 test	nummod
2	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proof	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proof	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 proof	advmod
5	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 startled	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 startled	nsubj:pass
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 startled	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 startled	advmod
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 startled	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 startled	aux:pass
12	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 proof	parataxis
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 movement	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 movement	det
15	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 startled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	One test	proof					tree rules
2	startle	may · perfect · passive	the movement	test					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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