Test 9 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

«zebras in Ukraine?? that's fake» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zebras · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 zebras	punct
2	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fake	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ukraine	case
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 zebras	nmod
5	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 zebras	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 fake	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fake	cop
8	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 fake	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fake	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	zebras in Ukraine					fake property	tree rules
2	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

Zebras have always lived wild in Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 lived	advmod
4	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Ukraine	case
7	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	Zebras			Ukraine		always, wild property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukraine=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Askania-Nova keeps animals from many continents, zebras too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Askania	Askania	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Nova	punct
3	Nova	Nova	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Askania	flat
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keeps	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 continents	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 continents	amod
8	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keeps	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 zebras	punct
10	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 continents	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	4 keeps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Askania		animals	many continents and zebras			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer animal=Beneficiary from continent=Eventuality

Option 3

Zebras are a kind of Ukrainian horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres 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	_	7 horse	case
6	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

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

Option 4

The photo must be from Africa, because zebras cannot live in cold places

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 photo	det
2	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 live	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 Africa	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 Africa	cop
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Africa	case
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 photo	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 live	mark
9	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 live	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 live	advmod
12	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 places	case
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 places	amod
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must				Africa			tree rules
2	not live	can	the photo			cold places			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

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