Test 6 · China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-…

«a salamander longer than me?? no way, they're tiny lizards» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, tiny lizards · What happens: be · To what, where: tiny lizards · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 378 «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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	_	4 longer	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 salamander	det
3	salamander	salamander	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 longer	nsubj
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 lizards	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 longer	obl
7	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 longer	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 longer	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 longer	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lizards	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lizards	cop
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lizards	amod
14	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 lizards	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lizards	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 lizards	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	they	tiny lizards				long property	tree rules
2	is	present	tiny lizards					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

It is a made-up animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 animal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 animal	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	It	a made animal					tree rules

Option 2

It is a fish, not a salamander

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fish	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 salamander	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 salamander	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 salamander	det
8	salamander	salamander	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	appos

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

Option 3

All salamanders are tiny lizards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 salamanders	det
2	salamanders	salamander	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lizards	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lizards	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lizards	amod
5	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all salamanders	tiny lizards					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Chinese giant salamander is an amphibian reported up to about 1.8 metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 salamander	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salamander	amod
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salamander	amod
4	salamander	salamander	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 amphibian	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 amphibian	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 amphibian	det
7	amphibian	amphibian	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 amphibian	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 reported	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 metres	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 1.8	advmod
12	1.8	1.8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 metres	nummod
13	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reported	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Chinese giant salamander	a amphibian					tree rules
2	report up	participle		a amphibian not said here				to 1.8 metres	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to metre=Co-Agent

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