Test 7 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

«elephants never forget, so my nan's elephant from the circus still remembers her» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephants, elephant, best answer · What happens: not forget, remember, be · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	4 forget	punct
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remembers	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	15 remembers	advmod
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nan	nmod:poss
8	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elephant	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 nan	case
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remembers	nsubj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 circus	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 circus	det
13	circus	circus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elephant	nmod
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 remembers	advmod
15	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remembers	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 forget	parataxis
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 What	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 answer	amod
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not forget in a quote	present	elephants			tree rules
2	remember in a quote	present	my nan's elephant from the circus	her = she	still	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

Only if she fed it peanuts every single day when it was in the circus

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 fed	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 fed	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	peanuts	peanut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	obl:unmarked
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 circus	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 circus	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 circus	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 circus	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 circus	det
15	circus	circus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	she	it			day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient peanut=Theme
2	is	past	it			the circus			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Elephants have very good but not perfect memories, so maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 memories	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 memories	advmod
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 memories	amod
8	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 maybe	advmod
11	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	2 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Elephants					good, maybe property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, elephants remember everything forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 remember	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 remember	obj
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 remember	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	elephants	everything				forever property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 4

No, elephants forget in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 elephants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	nsubj
4	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obl

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

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