Test 6 · ★ · Masters of camouflage

«tigers are bright orange, they'd never hide from a deer, obviously» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tigers · What happens: be, not hide · To what, where: deer

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 189 «Masters of camouflage» 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 orange	punct
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 orange	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 orange	cop
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 orange	amod
5	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hide	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hide	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hide	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 hide	advmod
10	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 orange	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 deer	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 deer	det
13	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hide	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 obviously	punct
15	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	10 hide	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 orange	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 orange	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 orange	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	tigers		orange property	tree rules
2	not hide in a quote	would	tigers = tiger	a deer	obviously property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from deer=Beneficiary
3	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

Right, deer always see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive	deer	them = they				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2

Tigers are invisible to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invisible	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 invisible	cop
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 invisible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tigers					to everyone; invisible property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Deer cannot see orange well, so the tiger blends into the grass for them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blends	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 blends	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tiger	det
10	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blends	nsubj
11	blends	blend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blends	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Deer	orange				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer orange=Stimulus
2	blend	present	the tiger					for Deer; into the grass	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent into grass=Co-Patient

Option 4

Deer only see orange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Deer	orange					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer orange=Stimulus

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