Test 4 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…

«they named a gibbon after Luke Skywalker? are u kidding» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, u kidding · What happens: name, be · To what, where: gibbon, u kidding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 190 «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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	_	3 named	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 named	nsubj
3	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kidding	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gibbon	det
5	gibbon	gibbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 Skywalker	case
7	Luke	Luke	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Skywalker	compound
8	Skywalker	Skywalker	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gibbon	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 named	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kidding	cop
11	u	u	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kidding	amod
12	kidding	kidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 kidding	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kidding	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 kidding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	name in a quote	past	they	a gibbon	after Luke Skywalker		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gibbon=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present		u kidding			tree rules
3	is	present	u kidding			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

It was named after a footballer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 footballer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 footballer	det
6	footballer	footballer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		It			after a footballer		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

It was a robot from the film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 robot	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 robot	det
4	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 film	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 film	det
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a robot		the film			tree rules

Option 3

No, gibbons cannot have names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	gibbons	gibbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	can	gibbons	names					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient

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

Yes, in 2017 the Skywalker hoolock gibbon was named as a new species

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 named	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 named	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 2017	case
4	2017	2017	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 named	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gibbon	det
6	Skywalker	Skywalker	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gibbon	compound
7	hoolock	hoolock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gibbon	compound
8	gibbon	gibbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 named	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 named	aux:pass
10	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 species	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 species	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 species	amod
14	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the Skywalker hoolock gibbon		2017		as a new species	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as species=Attribute

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