Test 2 · ★ · Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baoba…
«lol this hedgehog thing from madagascar, it's basically a hedgehog yeah» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: madagascar, hedgehog · What happens: be · To what, where: hedgehog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 164 «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 thing | punct |
| 2 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 thing | discourse |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | compound |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 madagascar | case |
| 7 | madagascar | madagascar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hedgehog | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hedgehog | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hedgehog | cop |
| 11 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 13 hedgehog | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hedgehog | det |
| 13 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | conj |
| 14 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 13 hedgehog | discourse |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 hedgehog | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 right | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 right | cop |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hedgehog | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | madagascar | a hedgehog | basically property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a hedgehog | 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, it is an ordinary hedgehog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 hedgehog | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hedgehog | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hedgehog | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hedgehog | det |
| 6 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hedgehog | amod |
| 7 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a ordinary hedgehog | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, tenrecs only look like hedgehogs; they are related to elephants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 tenrecs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | tenrecs | tenrec | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 hedgehogs | case |
| 7 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 related | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 related | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 related | cop |
| 11 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 elephants | case |
| 13 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 related | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | tenrecs | like hedgehogs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | tenrecs = tenrec | to elephants; related property | tree rules |
Option 3
No, it is a kind of cactus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cactus | case |
| 8 | cactus | cactus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a kind | of cactus | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, it is a hedgehog that swam there from Africa a long time ago
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 hedgehog | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hedgehog | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hedgehog | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hedgehog | det |
| 6 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 swam | nsubj |
| 8 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hedgehog | acl:relcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 swam | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 swam | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swam | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 swam | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a hedgehog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | a hedgehog | Africa; there | time | ago property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from africa=Trajectory |
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