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Test 7 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

In a cartoon, an elephant drinks a whole lake through its trunk like a straw. What does a real elephant do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephant · What happens: drink, do · To what, where: whole lake, cartoon, real elephant do

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, an elephant drinks a whole lake through its trunk like a straw.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	nsubj
7	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lake	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lake	amod
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	obj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 trunk	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 trunk	nmod:poss
13	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 straw	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 straw	det
16	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	a elephant	a whole lake		a cartoon		through elephant's trunk; like a straw	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What does a real elephant do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 do	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	amod
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	compound
6	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a real elephant do					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Never drinks at all, it gets all its water from grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 drinks	advmod
2	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 drinks	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drinks	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 water	det:predet
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 water	nmod:poss
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 grass	case
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	present				all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	it	its water		grass			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from grass=Source

Option 2

Drinks through the trunk exactly like a straw, only slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 straw	nsubj
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 trunk	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trunk	det
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinks	nmod
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 straw	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 straw	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 straw	det
8	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 straw	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 slower	advmod
11	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 straw	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Lowers its head and drinks the water up with its tusks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lowers	lower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drinks	nsubj
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowers	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drinks	cc
5	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinks	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 drinks	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tusks	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tusks	nmod:poss
11	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drinks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink up	present	Lowers and its head	the water				with water's tusks	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sucks a few litres into its trunk and squirts it into its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 litres	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 litres	amod
4	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sucks	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 trunk	nmod:poss
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sucks	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 squirts	cc
9	squirts	squirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sucks	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 squirts	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mouth	nmod:poss
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squirts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	present		a few litres		its trunk			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent litre=Source
2	squirt	present		trunk		trunk's mouth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mouth=Destination

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