Test 5 · The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, j…

«it's a pig with a nose like an elephant» Which is right about the tapir?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, pig · What happens: be · To what, where: pig · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 157 «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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	_	5 pig	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pig	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pig	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pig	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nose	det
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pig	nmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 elephant	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 elephant	det
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nose	nmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 elephant	punct
13	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pig	parataxis
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 tapir	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tapir	det
18	tapir	tapir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 right	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	a pig				with a nose like a elephant	tree rules
2	is	present	a pig					about the tapir; 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

It is a wild pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pig	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pig	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pig	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pig	amod
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a wild pig					tree rules

Option 2

It is a kind of anteater with a short trunk for licking up ants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 anteater	case
6	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trunk	amod
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 licking	mark
12	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kind	acl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 licking	compound:prt
14	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 licking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of anteater; with a short trunk	tree rules
2	lick up	gerund	a kind not said here	ants					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ant=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It looks piggy but is a closer cousin of horses and rhinos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 cousin	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cousin	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cousin	det
7	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 cousin	amod
8	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 horses	case
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cousin	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rhinos	cc
12	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 horses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It	piggy					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piggy=Attribute
2	is a	present		a closer cousin				of horses and rhinos	tree rules

Option 4

It is a baby elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 elephant	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 elephant	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 elephant	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elephant	compound
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a baby elephant					tree rules

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