Test 2 · ★ · Raccoons, opossums and skunks

In an ice age cartoon two opossum brothers hang upside down by their tails all day. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: two opossum brothers · What happens: hang down, be · To what, where: upside, age cartoon

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 224 «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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: In an ice age cartoon two opossum brothers hang upside down by their tails all day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 cartoon	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cartoon	det
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 age	compound
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cartoon	compound
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	obl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
7	opossum	opossum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brothers	compound
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hang	nsubj
9	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	obj
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 hang	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 tails	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tails	nmod:poss
14	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hang	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang down	present	two opossum brothers	upside		a age cartoon	day	by brothers's tails; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upside=Theme in cartoon=Destination

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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

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

Adult opossums cannot hang by their tails for long; young ones only briefly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opossums	amod
2	opossums	opossum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hang	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hang	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hang	advmod
5	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 tails	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tails	nmod:poss
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hang	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 long	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hang	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 hang	punct
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hang	obj
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 briefly	advmod
15	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	5 hang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hang	can	Adult opossums	young ones				by opossums's tails; for long; briefly property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme by tail=Destination

Option 2

Real opossums have no tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opossums	amod
2	opossums	opossum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 tails	det
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Real opossums	no tails					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 3

Real opossums sleep hanging by their tails every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opossums	amod
2	opossums	opossum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sleep	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 tails	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tails	nmod:poss
7	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hanging	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hanging	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Real opossums						tree rules
2	hang	gerund	Real opossums not said here				night	by opossums's tails	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location

Option 4

Real opossums hang upside down by their ears, not their tails, all day long

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opossums	amod
2	opossums	opossum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hang	nsubj
3	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hang	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 hang	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hang	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tails	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tails	advmod
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tails	nmod:poss
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hang	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tails	appos
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang down	present	Real opossums	upside				by opossums's ears; opossums's tails obl; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upside=Theme by ear=Destination

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