Test 8 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

«the Pouakai story is just a fairy tale, nothing real» What is the fair view?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pouakai story, fairy tale · What happens: be · To what, where: fairy tale, fair view

This is test 8 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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	_	9 tale	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	Pouakai	Pouakai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	compound
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tale	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tale	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 tale	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tale	det
8	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tale	amod
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 view	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 tale	appos
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nothing	amod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 tale	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 view	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 view	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 view	det
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 view	amod
18	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 view	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Pouakai story	a fairy tale					tree rules
2	is a	present	a fairy tale	the fair view					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

It was written last year by a children's author to sell books

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	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 year	amod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl:unmarked
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 author	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 author	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 children	case
10	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 written	advcl
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive	a children's author	It			year		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	sell	to-infinitive	a children's author not said here	books					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 2

It proves dragons were real

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	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 real	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	dragons					real property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may remember the real Haast's eagle, though stories change

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	3 remember	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Haast	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Haast	amod
6	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eagle	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Haast	case
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 change	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 change	mark
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 change	nsubj
12	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	may	It	the real Haast's eagle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
2	change	present	stories						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is about a sea cow

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 cow	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cow	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 cow	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	compound
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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