Test 12 · ★★ · Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and…

«that fox in the cartoon outsmarts everyone, so foxes are the cleverest animals ever» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox, foxes, best answer · What happens: outsmart, be · To what, where: everyone, cleverest animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 191 «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 outsmarts	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outsmarts	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cartoon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cartoon	det
6	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fox	nmod
7	outsmarts	outsmart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 outsmarts	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 animals	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 animals	advmod
11	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 animals	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 animals	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 animals	det
14	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 animals	amod
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 outsmarts	conj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 animals	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 outsmarts	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 outsmarts	parataxis
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 What	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 answer	amod
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 outsmarts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	outsmart in a quote	present	that fox in the cartoon	everyone		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	foxes	the cleverest animals	ever	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

Yes, foxes beat every other animal at every test, just like in the cartoons and the old fables

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animal	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 test	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 test	det
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cartoons	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	16 cartoons	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 cartoons	case
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cartoons	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cartoons	det
16	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fables	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fables	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fables	amod
20	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cartoons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	foxes	every other animal		every test		like the cartoons and the old fables	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location animal=Theme

Option 2

No, foxes are the least clever mammals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 mammals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mammals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mammals	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mammals	det
6	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 clever	advmod
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mammals	amod
8	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	foxes	the clever mammals					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, foxes can talk and read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 read	cc
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	can	foxes						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	infinitive	foxes not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Foxes are clever, but crows and parrots solve harder puzzles; cartoons invent personalities

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 solve	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 solve	cc
6	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 solve	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 parrots	cc
8	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crows	conj
9	solve	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	conj
10	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 puzzles	amod
11	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 solve	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 invent	punct
13	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 invent	nsubj
14	invent	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	conj
15	personalities	personality	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 invent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Foxes		clever property	tree rules
2	solve	present	crows and parrots	harder puzzles		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic
3	invent	present	cartoons	personalities		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent personality=Result

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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