Test 2 · Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, hudd…

«my mate reckons lemmings jump off cliffs coz there's too many of them, that's a fact innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, lemmings, many, that, fact innit · What happens: reckon, jump off, be · To what, where: cliffs, fact innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	_	4 reckons	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jump	nsubj
6	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckons	ccomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	8 cliffs	case
8	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jump	obl
9	coz	because	SCONJ	_	11 's	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 jump	advcl
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 's	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 many	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 innit	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 innit	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 innit	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 innit	det
20	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 innit	compound
21	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jump	parataxis
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 innit	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 right	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 right	cop
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 innit	acl:relcl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	my mate				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	jump off in a quote	present	lemmings	cliffs			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory
3	be in a quote	present	many of lemmings		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	that	a fact innit			tree rules
5	is	present	a fact innit			right 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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a myth from a film where lemmings were pushed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 myth	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 myth	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 myth	det
6	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 film	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 film	det
9	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 myth	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 pushed	advmod
11	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pushed	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pushed	aux:pass
13	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 film	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a myth		a film			tree rules
2	push	past · passive		lemmings					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they jump off cliffs every year to make room for the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jump	nsubj
4	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 cliffs	case
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 jump	advcl
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 others	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	present	they	cliffs			year		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory
2	make	to-infinitive	they not said here	room				for the others	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for other=Asset

Option 3

Yes, but only in Norway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Norway	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Norway	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Norway	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Norway	case
6	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

No, lemmings jump into rivers instead of off cliffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	nsubj
4	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	10 cliffs	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	off	off	ADP	_	10 cliffs	case
10	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	present	lemmings					into rivers result; instead cliffs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result

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