Test 11 · Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, hudd…

«a tall bloke in a blue shirt walked past the prairie dogs, then a short one in yellow. same squeak, right?»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tall bloke · What happens: walk · To what, where: short one

This is test 11 of lesson 241 «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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	_	9 walked	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 shirt	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shirt	det
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shirt	amod
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bloke	nmod
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	past	past	ADP	_	13 dogs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dogs	det
12	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dogs	compound
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 one	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 squeak	case
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 squeak	amod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 yellow	punct
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 squeak	amod
23	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 right	punct
25	right	right	INTJ	_	9 walked	discourse
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	past	a tall bloke in a blue shirt	a short one in yellow same squeak				past the prairie dogs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past dog=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, prairie dogs have only one squeak, the same for any danger at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dogs	compound
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 squeak	nummod
8	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 same	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 squeak	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 danger	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 danger	det
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 same	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 danger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	prairie dogs	one squeak					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeak=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they cannot see colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	they	colours					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, experiments suggest the calls change with size and colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 suggest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct
3	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 change	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 calls	det
6	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 change	nsubj
7	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 size	case
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 colour	cc
11	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 size	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	experiments						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	change	present	the calls					with size and colour	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, they only squeak when they see dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 squeak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squeak	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squeak	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 squeak	advmod
5	squeak	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 see	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 squeak	advcl
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	present	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	present	they	dogs					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

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