Test 1 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains

«Peppa Pig is pink so all pigs are pink, obvs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peppa Pig, pigs · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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 pink	punct
2	Peppa	Peppa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pig	compound
3	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pink	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pink	cop
5	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 pink	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 pigs	det
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pink	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pink	cop
10	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pink	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obvs	punct
12	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pink	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 obvs	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	5 pink	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Peppa Pig	pink property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	all pigs	obvs obl; pink property	tree rules
3	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

Pigs are only pink in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pink	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pink	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 pink	advmod
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigs				summer	pink property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many pigs are pink, but many are black, spotted, ginger or hairy

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pigs	amod
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pink	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pink	cop
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 black	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 black	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 black	cop
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pink	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spotted	punct
11	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 black	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ginger	punct
13	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pink	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 hairy	cc
15	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Many pigs	pink property	tree rules
2	is	present	many	black property	tree rules
3	spot	participle	many not said here		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
4	be		Many pigs not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only cartoon pigs have colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 pigs	advmod
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pigs	compound
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	cartoon pigs	colours					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 4

All pigs are pink, without exception, everywhere in the whole world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pigs	det
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pink	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pink	cop
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 exception	punct
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 exception	case
7	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pink	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 everywhere	punct
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 exception	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 world	amod
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everywhere	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all pigs					pink property	tree rules

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