Test 6 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

«Irish elk, so it was an Irish elk then, obviously» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Irish elk · What happens: be · To what, where: Irish elk

This is test 6 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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 elk	punct
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elk	amod
3	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 elk	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 elk	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 elk	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 elk	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 elk	det
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 elk	amod
10	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 elk	conj
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 true	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
13	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	17 true	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 obviously	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 elk	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 elk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	it	a Irish elk					tree rules
2	is	present	a Irish elk				then	obviously, true 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

It was a giant deer, not an elk and not only Irish

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	5 deer	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deer	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deer	amod
5	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 elk	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 elk	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 elk	det
9	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deer	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Irish	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 Irish	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 Irish	advmod
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a giant deer and a elk					tree rules
2	not be								tree rules

Option 2

It was a kind of horse

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 horse	case
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a kind				of horse	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a true elk that lived only in Ireland and nowhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 elk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 elk	det
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 elk	amod
5	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 elk	acl:relcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 Ireland	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ireland	case
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nowhere	cc
12	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 lived	advmod
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 nowhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a true elk			Ireland		nowhere property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location

Option 4

It was a kind of moose with no antlers

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 moose	case
6	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 antlers	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 antlers	det
9	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a kind				of moose; with no antlers	tree rules

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