Test 8 · ★ · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor

«okapi's a zebra cos stripes» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: okapi, cos stripes · What happens: be · To what, where: cos stripes

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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	_	7 stripes	punct
2	okapi	okapi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stripes	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stripes	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stripes	det
5	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cos	compound
6	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stripes	compound
7	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 stripes	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stripes	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stripes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	okapi	a cos stripes					tree rules
2	is	present	a cos stripes					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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is a zebra that lives in forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 zebra	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 zebra	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 zebra	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 zebra	det
6	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 zebra	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 forests	case
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a zebra					tree rules
2	live	present	a zebra			forests			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

Option 2

Yes, a zebra crossed with a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 zebra	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 zebra	det
4	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 zebra	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	participle		a zebra not said here				with a horse	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, it is a kind of deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 deer	case
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind				of deer	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is the giraffe's closest relative, with stripes only on its legs

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 relative	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 relative	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 relative	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giraffe	det
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 relative	nsubj
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giraffe	case
8	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 relative	amod
9	relative	relative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stripes	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 stripes	case
12	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 relative	obl
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 legs	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 legs	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 legs	nmod:poss
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stripes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					with stripes on giraffe's legs; relative property	tree rules

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