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Test 4 · ★ · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory

My uncle says elephants can grow a new tusk if one is cut off. Right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, elephants · What happens: say, grow, cut off · To what, where: new tusk, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: My uncle says elephants can grow a new tusk if one is cut off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tusk	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tusk	amod
9	tusk	tusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 cut	mark
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 cut	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux:pass
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grow	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	can	elephants	a new tusk					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tusk=Theme
3	cut off a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		one					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, a tusk cut off at the root never grows back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tusk	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tusk	det
4	tusk	tusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tusk	acl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 root	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 root	det
9	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 grows	advmod
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	participle		a tusk not said here		the root			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not grow back	present	a tusk						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, because elephants don't have any tusks to cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 tusks	det
9	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cut	mark
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tusks	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	elephants	any tusks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient
2	cut	to-infinitive	elephants not said here	any tusks not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, a new one grows in a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 month	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 month	det
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a new one				month		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but only on Asian elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 elephants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 elephants	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 elephants	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 elephants	case
6	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 elephants	amod
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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