Test 1 · ★ · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory

Dumbo flies with his ears innit. could a real elephant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dumbo · What happens: fly

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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	Dumbo	Dumbo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 innit	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 innit	nmod:poss
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 innit	compound
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flies	punct
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 elephant	aux
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 elephant	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 elephant	amod
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 flies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Dumbo					with Dumbo's ears innit	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, but its ears do work as coolers and warning signals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ears	nmod:poss
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 coolers	case
9	coolers	cooler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 signals	cc
11	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 signals	compound
12	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 coolers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	its ears	work				as coolers and warning signals	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 2

No, real elephants have no ears at all, only two small holes in the head

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elephants	amod
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 ears	det
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 ears	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 holes	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 holes	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 holes	nummod
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 holes	amod
14	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 head	det
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	real elephants	no ears		all		two small holes in the head obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

Option 3

Yes, if the ears are big enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 big	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ears	det
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 big	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 big	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ears					big, enough property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, but only baby elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 elephants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 elephants	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 elephants	advmod
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elephants	compound
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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