Test 2 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…

«koala bear's my fave bear» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fave bear · What happens: be

This is test 2 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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	_	7 bear	punct
2	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bear	compound
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bear	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bear	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bear	nmod:poss
6	fave	fave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	amod
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 bear	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my fave bear					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

No, koalas are a kind of monkey

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	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 monkey	case
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	koalas	a kind				of monkey	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Koalas are marsupials, not bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 marsupials	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 marsupials	cop
3	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bears	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bears	advmod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 marsupials	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Koalas	marsupials and bears					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, they are panda cousins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cousins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cousins	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cousins	cop
5	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cousins	compound
6	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	panda cousins					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, they are the smallest kind of bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bear	case
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the smallest kind				of bear	tree rules

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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