Test 9 · Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world

«koalas are just little bears, my nan calls them koala bears» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: koalas, nan · What happens: be, call · To what, where: little bears, koalas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 319 «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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	_	2 koalas	punct
2	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bears	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bears	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 bears	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bears	amod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 calls	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nan	nmod:poss
9	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calls	nsubj
10	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bears	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 calls	obj
12	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bears	compound
13	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 calls	xcomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 calls	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 calls	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	koalas	little bears		tree rules
2	call speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan	koalas = koala		tree rules
3	is	present			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

Koalas are baby pandas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pandas	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pandas	cop
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pandas	compound
4	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Koalas	baby pandas					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Koalas are not bears at all, despite the name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bears	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bears	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bears	advmod
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bears	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 name	punct
8	despite	despite	ADP	_	10 name	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 name	det
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bears	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Koalas	bears and the name		all			tree rules

Option 3

Koalas are bears that live only in trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bears	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bears	cop
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bears	acl:relcl
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 trees	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl

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

Option 4

Koalas are the smallest of the eight bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smallest	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smallest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smallest	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bears	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bears	det
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bears	nummod
8	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smallest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Koalas					of the eight bears; small property	tree rules

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