Test 2 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

«polar bears are white all the way through, duh» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: polar bears · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 169 «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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 white	punct
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 white	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	obl:unmarked
9	through	through	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 duh	punct
11	duh	duh	INTJ	_	5 white	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 duh	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 white	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	polar bears					all way obl:unmarked; white property	tree rules
2	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

Their skin is white and their hairs are black underneath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 white	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hairs	nmod:poss
7	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 black	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 black	cop
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 white	conj
10	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	9 black	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Their skin					white property	tree rules
2	is	present	their hairs					black, underneath property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, white skin and white hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 skin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skin	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skin	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hair	cc
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

They are grey under the fur

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	3 grey	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	cop
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 fur	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fur	det
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grey	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			the fur		grey property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their skin is black and their hairs are see-through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 black	cop
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 through	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hairs	nmod:poss
7	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 through	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 through	cop
9	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 through	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 through	punct
11	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Their skin					black property	tree rules
2	is	present	their hairs					thorough 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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