Test 4 · The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils…

«why are there camels in australia, isn't that like arabia» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: arabia · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: camels, australia

This is test 4 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	_	5 camels	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 camels	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 camels	cop
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 camels	expl
5	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 australia	case
7	australia	australia	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camels	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arabia	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 arabia	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 arabia	advmod
11	that	that	ADV	_	13 arabia	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 arabia	case
13	arabia	arabia	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camels	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 arabia	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 arabia	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 camels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		camels and arabia	australia; there		tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present				like arabia; that property	tree rules
3	is	present	arabia			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

People brought them in the 1800s and many ran wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 1800s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1800s	det
6	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 brought	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ran	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	People	them = they		the 1800s			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	run	past	many					wild property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

There are no camels in Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 camels	det
4	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 camels	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	no camels in Australia			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They are actually large kangaroos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kangaroos	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kangaroos	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kangaroos	amod
5	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	large kangaroos					tree rules

Option 4

They walked across from Arabia over a land bridge long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Arabia	case
5	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bridge	compound
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 ago	advmod
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	They			Arabia		over a land bridge; across, ago property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from arabia=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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