Test 8 · Elephants: the trunk and everything it does

Which is true about the elephant's sense of smell?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephant · What happens: be, sense · To what, where: smell

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 sense	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sense	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 elephant	case
8	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 smell	case
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sense	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the elephant's sense of smell; true property	tree rules
2	sense		the elephant	smell					nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Elephants have more smell genes than dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 genes	amod
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 genes	compound
5	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 genes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Elephants	more smell genes				than dogs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gene=Patient

Option 2

Dogs can smell water further away than any elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
5	further	further	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 smell	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 elephant	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 elephant	det
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	can	Dogs	water				away property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus

Option 3

Elephants can hardly smell anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 smell	advmod
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 smell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	can	Elephants	anything				hardly property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Elephants smell only with their mouths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 smell	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 mouths	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouths	nmod:poss
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Elephants					with Elephants's mouths	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location

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