Test 10 · The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy

«gibbon's a monkey, it's got a long tail for swinging, right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gibbon · What happens: be, get, swing · To what, where: monkey, long tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 2 «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 monkey	punct
2	gibbon	gibbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 monkey	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 monkey	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 monkey	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tail	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tail	amod
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 swinging	mark
14	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 right	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swinging	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	20 right	discourse
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	gibbon	a monkey		tree rules
2	get in a quote	present · passive	gibbon	a long tail		tree rules
3	swing in a quote	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a gibbon is a small ape with no tail; it swings with its long arms

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 ape	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gibbon	det
4	gibbon	gibbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ape	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ape	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ape	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ape	amod
8	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 tail	det
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ape	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 swings	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swings	nsubj
14	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ape	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 arms	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arms	nmod:poss
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 arms	amod
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a gibbon	a small ape				with no tail	tree rules
2	swing	present	gibbon					with gibbon's long arms	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

No, it is a kind of sloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sloth	case
8	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind				of sloth	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it is a monkey with a short tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 monkey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 monkey	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 monkey	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 tail	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tail	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tail	amod
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a monkey				with a short tail	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it swings by its long tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 swings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swings	nsubj
4	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 tail	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	amod
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	present	it					by its long tail	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by tail=Trajectory

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