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Test 11 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

A herd passes the bones of a buffalo and then the bones of an elephant. Where will it probably stop longest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: herd · What happens: pass, stop · To what, where: bones

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» 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: A herd passes the bones of a buffalo and then the bones of an elephant.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 herd	det
2	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passes	nsubj
3	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 buffalo	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 buffalo	det
8	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bones	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bones	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 bones	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bones	det
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 buffalo	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 elephant	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 elephant	det
15	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bones	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	a herd	the bones of a buffalo and the bones of a elephant					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bone=Trajectory

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: Where will it probably stop longest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 stop	advmod
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 stop	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	herd					long, probably property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

It will run away from both

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	3 run	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 both	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	future	It			both		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from both=Trajectory

Option 2

At neither, it walks past both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 neither	case
2	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 walks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 neither	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walks	nsubj
5	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	past	past	ADP	_	7 both	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	it			neither		past both	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at neither=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At the elephant bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 bones	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bones	det
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bones	compound
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

At the buffalo bones first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 bones	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bones	det
3	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bones	compound
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 bones	advmod

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

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