Test 4 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

«unicorns are fake, so the Siberian unicorn is fake too» What is right?

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

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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 fake	punct
2	unicorns	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fake	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fake	cop
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fake	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 fake	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 unicorn	det
8	Siberian	siberian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 unicorn	amod
9	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fake	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fake	cop
11	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fake	parataxis
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 fake	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 fake	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fake	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	unicorns	fake property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the Siberian unicorn	fake property	tree rules
3	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

It is still alive in Siberia

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 alive	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 alive	advmod
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Siberia	case
6	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 alive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			Siberia	still	alive property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was a real giant rhino, only the name is a joke

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	6 rhino	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rhino	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rhino	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rhino	amod
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rhino	amod
6	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joke	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	13 joke	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 name	det
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 joke	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 joke	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rhino	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a real giant rhino and a joke					tree rules
2	is a	present	the name	a joke					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it is only a fairy tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 tale	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tale	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tale	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 tale	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tale	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	compound
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

It was a real white horse with a horn on its head

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	6 horse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 horse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 horn	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horn	det
9	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horse	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horn	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a real white horse				with a horn on horn's head	tree rules

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