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Test 10 · Elephants: the trunk and everything it does

In a cartoon an elephant is scared of a tiny mouse and climbs a chair. What is the real story?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: elephant, real story · What happens: be, climb · To what, where: cartoon, chair

This is test 10 of lesson 21 «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon an elephant is scared of a tiny mouse and climbs a chair.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 elephant	det
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 mouse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mouse	amod
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 climbs	cc
13	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 chair	det
15	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climbs	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a elephant			a cartoon		of a tiny mouse; scared property	tree rules
2	climb	present	a elephant not said here	a chair					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location chair=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is the real story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Every elephant faints when it sees a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faints	nsubj
3	faints	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 sees	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sees	nsubj
6	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faints	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	present	every elephant						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	present	elephant	a mouse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

Option 2

Elephants are afraid only of grey mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 mice	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 mice	case
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mice	amod
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Elephants					of grey mice; afraid property	tree rules

Option 3

Elephants run from mice because mice climb up the trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 run	nsubj
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 mice	case
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 run	obl
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 climb	mark
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 climb	nsubj
7	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 run	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 climb	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Elephants					from mice	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouse=Trajectory
2	climb up	present	mice	the trunk					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=Theme

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

Elephants may startle at small things but are not specially afraid of mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 startle	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 startle	aux
3	startle	startle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 things	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 startle	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 afraid	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 afraid	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 afraid	advmod
10	specially	specially	ADV	_	11 afraid	advmod
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 startle	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mice	case
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	startle	may	Elephants			small things			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	present	Elephants not said here					of mice; afraid, specially 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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