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Test 6 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

A woman and a man from a group that sometimes hunts elephants talk near a herd in Kenya. Whose voice makes them nervous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: group, elephants, voice · What happens: hunt, talk, make · To what, where: herd, elephants

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 woman and a man from a group that sometimes hunts elephants talk near a herd in Kenya.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 man	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 group	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 group	det
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hunts	nsubj
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 hunts	advmod
11	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 group	acl:relcl
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 talk	nsubj
13	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hunts	ccomp
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 herd	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 herd	det
16	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talk	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Kenya	case
18	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 herd	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	a group					sometimes property	tree rules
2	talk	present	elephants			a herd in Kenya			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Whose voice makes them nervous?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	2 voice	nmod:poss
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	voice	elephants = elephant				nervous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

The options

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

The man's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case

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

Option 2

The woman's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woman	case

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

Option 3

Both equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	2 equally	cc:preconj
2	equally	equally	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Neither of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Neither	nmod

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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