Test 1 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

«octopus has 8 tentacles innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: octopus · What happens: have, be · To what, where: tentacles innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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	_	3 has	punct
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tentacles	nummod
5	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 innit	compound
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 right	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	octopus	tentacles innit					tree rules
2	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

No, an octopus has 10 tentacles, same as any squid has

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 octopus	det
4	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 tentacles	nummod
7	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tentacles	nmod:unmarked
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 has	mark
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 squid	det
12	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a octopus	10 tentacles same					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient
2	have	present	any squid						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, and it has 2 more short arms on its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 has	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 arms	nummod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 arms	amod
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arms	amod
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	2 more short arms		its back			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient

Option 3

Yes, every single limb of an octopus is a tentacle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 tentacle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 limb	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 limb	amod
5	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tentacle	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 octopus	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 octopus	det
8	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 limb	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tentacle	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tentacle	det
11	tentacle	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every single limb of a octopus	a tentacle					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, an octopus has 8 arms; squids have the 2 tentacles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 octopus	det
4	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 arms	nummod
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	squids	squid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tentacles	det
12	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 tentacles	nummod
13	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a octopus	8 arms					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	have	present	squids	the 2 tentacles					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient

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