Test 4 · ★ · Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian…

«a bison's just a big cow, i'll go get a selfie close up» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, selfie · What happens: go, get, close up, be · To what, where: selfie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 372 «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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	_	8 cow	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bison	det
3	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cow	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bison	case
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 cow	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cow	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cow	amod
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cow	parataxis
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 selfie	det
15	selfie	selfie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 get	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 close	compound:prt
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 go	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	i			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	infinitive	i not said here	a selfie		tree rules
3	close up in a quote	infinitive	a selfie not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	present			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

Bison are tame like cows, so go ahead and stand right next to it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tame	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tame	cop
3	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 cows	case
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tame	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tame	parataxis
9	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stand	cc
11	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 go	conj
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 next	advmod
13	next	next	ADV	_	11 stand	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bison		like cows; tame property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive			ahead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	infinitive		Bison	next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stay back, bison are calm but still dangerous up close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 calm	punct
4	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calm	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	cop
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	parataxis
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 dangerous	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 dangerous	advmod
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calm	conj
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 close	advmod
11	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 dangerous	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stay back	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	bison		calm property	tree rules
3	be		bison not said here	still	close property	tree rules

Option 3

Only American bison can hurt people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 bison	advmod
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bison	amod
3	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	can	American bison	people					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

Option 4

Bison are scared of phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 phones	case
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bison					of phones; scared property	tree rules

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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