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Test 8 · ★ · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory

The saying is "an elephant never forgets". How true is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: saying · What happens: not be, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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: The saying is "an elephant never forgets".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saying	det
2	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgets	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 forgets	cop
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 forgets	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgets	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 forgets	advmod
8	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 forgets	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 forgets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the saying					forget 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.

Sentence 2: How true is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 true	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 true	punct

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

The options

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

Partly true: they remember friends and places for decades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Partly	partly	ADV	_	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remember	nsubj
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	parataxis
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 places	cc
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 friends	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 decades	case
10	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	they	friends and places			decade		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

Option 2

Totally true: they remember every single thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remember	nsubj
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	parataxis
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 thing	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remember	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	they	every single thing					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 3

It's about their tusks, not their memory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tusks	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tusks	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 tusks	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tusks	nmod:poss
5	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 memory	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 memory	advmod
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 memory	nmod:poss
9	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tusks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about their tusks and tusks's memory	tree rules

Option 4

Not true at all: they forget in minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 true	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forget	nsubj
7	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 minutes	case
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	they				minute		tree rules

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