Test 3 · Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking…
«bet the Sumatran tiger's the biggest tiger, it's in the jungle» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Sumatran tiger, tiger, jungle · What happens: bet, be · To what, where: biggest tiger, jungle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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 | _ | 2 bet | punct |
| 2 | bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tiger | det |
| 4 | Sumatran | Sumatran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tiger | compound |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tiger | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tiger | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 8 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 tiger | amod |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bet | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jungle | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jungle | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 jungle | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 jungle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jungle | det |
| 15 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bet | obl |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 jungle | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 right | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | cop |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jungle | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the Sumatran tiger | the biggest tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | tiger | the jungle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the jungle | 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 · ✓ the right answer
No, it is the smallest living tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 tiger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tiger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tiger | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tiger | det |
| 6 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 tiger | amod |
| 7 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tiger | amod |
| 8 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | the smallest living tiger | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, jungle tigers are always biggest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 biggest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tigers | compound |
| 4 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 biggest | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 biggest | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 biggest | advmod |
| 7 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | jungle tigers | always, big property | tree rules |
Option 3
No, it is not a real tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 tiger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tiger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tiger | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 tiger | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tiger | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tiger | amod |
| 8 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | it | a real tiger | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, it is the biggest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 biggest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 biggest | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 biggest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 biggest | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | big property | tree rules |
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