Test 8 · The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds

«why'd the giraffe only eat 2 mouthfuls off that acacia and walk off» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: eat, walk off, be · To what, where: giraffe, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 4 «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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	_	7 eat	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 eat	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giraffe	det
5	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 mouthfuls	nummod
9	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 acacia	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 acacia	det
12	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 walk	cc
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eat	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 walk	compound:prt
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 walk	punct
17	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 answer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	would	the giraffe	off that acacia	tree rules
2	walk off in a quote	infinitive			tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present	the best answer		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 · ✓ the right answer

The acacia makes its leaves bitter, and ants may attack too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acacia	det
2	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
6	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attack	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 attack	cc
9	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 attack	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 attack	aux
11	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	parataxis
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 attack	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the acacia	acacia's leaves				bitter property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leaf=Product
2	attack	may	ants						vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The thorns are too long for its tongue to get round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thorns	det
2	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tongue	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tongue	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 tongue	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 tongue	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tongue	nmod:poss
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tongue	acl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the thorns					for its tongue; long property	tree rules
2	get round	to-infinitive						round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Giraffes only eat two leaves a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leaves	nummod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Giraffes	two leaves			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 4

The giraffe was not hungry at all that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giraffe	det
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hungry	obl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the giraffe			all	day	hungry property	tree rules

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