Test 2 · The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils…

«my uncle says emus won the war against the army lmao, made that up right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, emus · What happens: say, win, make up, be · To what, where: war, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 165 «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 won	nsubj
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 war	det
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obj
9	against	against	ADP	_	12 lmao	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lmao	det
11	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lmao	compound
12	lmao	lmao	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 won	parataxis
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 made	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 made	compound:prt
17	right	right	ADV	_	14 made	advmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 made	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	6 won	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my uncle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win in a quote	past	emus	the war	against the army lmao	tree rules
3	make up in a quote	past		that	right property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Pivot
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 · ✓ the right answer

It really happened: in 1932 soldiers largely failed to cull emus

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	3 happened	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 failed	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
6	1932	1932	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 soldiers	nummod
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 failed	obl
8	largely	largely	ADV	_	9 failed	advmod
9	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cull	mark
11	cull	cull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 failed	xcomp
12	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fail	past			1932 soldiers	largely property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not cull	to-infinitive		emus			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emu=Source

Option 2

It is a made-up joke

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	7 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 joke	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	It	a made joke					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It was a war against kangaroos that ate all the wheat on the farms

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 war	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 war	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	against	against	ADP	_	6 kangaroos	case
6	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 war	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 war	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 wheat	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wheat	det
11	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 farms	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farms	det
14	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a war				against kangaroos	tree rules
2	eat	past	a war	all wheat		the farms			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient

Option 4

Emus were in the army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 army	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 army	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 army	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 army	det
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Emus			the army			tree rules

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