Test 10 · Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking…

«why should i care what's in my soap, it's just soap» What links soap to Sumatra?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, soap · What happens: care, be, link · To what, where: soap, Sumatra

This is test 10 of lesson 162 «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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 care	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 care	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 care	obj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 soap	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 soap	nmod:poss
10	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 's	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 soap	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 soap	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 soap	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 soap	advmod
15	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 care	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 soap	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 links	nsubj
18	links	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 soap	acl:relcl
19	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 links	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Sumatra	case
21	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 links	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	care in a quote	should	i			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present				tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	soap	soap		tree rules
4	link	present	soap	soap	Sumatra	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent soap=Patient to sumatra=Co-Patient

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

Soap is made from tiger fat, so buying it hurts the last wild tigers

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 fat	case
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fat	compound
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl:agent
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hurts	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 hurts	advmod
9	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hurts	csubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 buying	obj
11	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tigers	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tigers	amod
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tigers	amod
15	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present · passive	tiger fat	Soap	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	buy	gerund		Soap	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	hurt	present	buying	the last wild tigers	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tiger=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, soap has no plant oils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 soap	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 oils	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oils	compound
7	oils	oil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing soap	no plant oils					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Palm oil in soap may come from plantations that replaced forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oil	compound
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 soap	case
4	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oil	nmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 plantations	case
8	plantations	plantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 replaced	nsubj
10	replaced	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plantations	acl:relcl
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replaced	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	may	Palm oil in soap			plantations			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from plantation=Initial_Location
2	replace	past	plantations	forest					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Co-Theme

Option 4

Soap is made of rhino horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 horn	case
5	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horn	compound
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Soap				of rhino horn	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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