Test 8 · ★★ · Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe…

«mate says it's a vampire deer cos it has fangs lol» What is it really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: vampire deer, fangs, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 318 «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer» 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 says	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deer	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deer	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deer	det
7	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deer	compound
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 has	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
12	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 has	obj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	15 What	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 lol	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 has	obj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 it	cop
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 What	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	15 What	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	mate	a vampire deer	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	mate	fangs	tree rules
4	is a	present		mate	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 · ✓ the right answer

A Chinese water deer, whose males have long fangs instead of antlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deer	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deer	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deer	compound
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 males	nmod:poss
7	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deer	parataxis
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fangs	amod
10	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 antlers	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	males	long fangs				instead antlers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Patient

Option 2

A deer that creeps out at night and drinks the blood of sheep and cows

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drinks	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 creeps	nsubj
4	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 deer	acl:relcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 creeps	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creeps	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 creeps	cc
9	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blood	det
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drinks	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sheep	case
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blood	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cows	cc
15	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sheep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep out	present	a deer				night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	present	a deer	the blood of sheep and cows					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

Option 3

A cartoon animal that is not real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animal	compound
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 real	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 real	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 real	advmod
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a cartoon animal					real property	tree rules

Option 4

A muntjac with broken antlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 muntjac	det
2	muntjac	muntjac	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 antlers	case
4	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 antlers	amod
5	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 muntjac	nmod

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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