Test 2 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

«elephant painted a flower at the zoo, so it's an artist innit» What is more accurate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephant · What happens: paint, be · To what, where: flower, zoo, artist innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 painted	punct
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	nsubj
3	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 accurate	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 zoo	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 zoo	det
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 innit	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 innit	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 innit	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 innit	det
14	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 innit	compound
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 painted	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 accurate	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 accurate	cop
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 accurate	advmod
20	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 accurate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint in a quote	past	elephant	a flower	the zoo		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at zoo=Destination
2	is a in a quote	present	elephant	a artist innit			tree rules
3	is	present				accurate 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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, elephants paint in the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 elephants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paint	nsubj
4	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wild	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wild	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paint	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	elephants			the wild			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wild=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Elephants paint flowers to send messages to other elephants far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paint	nsubj
2	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paint	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 send	mark
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paint	advcl
6	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 send	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 elephants	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 elephants	amod
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 send	obl
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	5 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	Elephants	flowers					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Destination
2	send	to-infinitive	Elephants not said here	messages	other elephants			away property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to elephant=Destination

Option 3

Elephants paint better than people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paint	nsubj
2	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 paint	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	Elephants					well property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was trained and guided, and the show is mostly for tourists

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 trained	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trained	aux:pass
3	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 guided	cc
5	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 trained	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mostly	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mostly	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 show	det
9	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mostly	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mostly	cop
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	3 trained	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 tourists	case
13	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	train	past · passive		It	for tourists	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	guide	participle				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the show		mostly property	tree rules

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