Test 7 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…

«my nan says she saw a Tasmanian tiger last week» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, best answer · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: Tasmanian tiger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tiger	det
8	Tasmanian	tasmanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tiger	amod
9	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 week	amod
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl:unmarked
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 saw	parataxis
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	past	nan	a Tasmanian tiger	week	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer			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 still report them, but no proof of a living one has been found since 1936

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 report	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 report	advmod
3	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 report	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 proof	det
8	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 one	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proof	nmod
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 found	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 found	aux:pass
15	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 report	conj
16	since	since	ADP	_	17 1936	case
17	1936	1936	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	report	present	People	them = they	still	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	live	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	present · perfect · passive		no proof of a living one	since 1936	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	proof			a living one		nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Yes, there is a whole zoo of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 zoo	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 zoo	amod
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 zoo	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a whole zoo of them			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, they were always made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		they				always property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 4

Yes, they are common in every garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 common	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 common	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 common	cop
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 common	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			every garden		common property	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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