Test 7 · The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs

«buy the goat toy or the sheep toy for my zodiac year, which one's right, ffs»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: buy · To what, where: goat toy

This is test 7 of lesson 382 «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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 buy	punct
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toy	det
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toy	compound
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 toy	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 toy	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 toy	compound
9	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toy	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 year	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 year	nmod:poss
12	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 year	compound
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ffs	punct
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ffs	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 one	case
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ffs	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 right	punct
20	ffs	ff	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 year	appos
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the goat toy or the sheep toy			year		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme

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

Only the goat is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 goat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goat	det
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the goat					right property	tree rules

Option 2

Only the sheep is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 sheep	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sheep					right property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Either, the Chinese word covers both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 covers	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Either	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covers	nsubj
6	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 covers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	the Chinese word	both				either property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme both=Destination

Option 4

Neither, it is a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 horse	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 horse	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horse	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a horse				neither property	tree rules

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