Test 1 · ★ · The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?

«capybaras are friends with literally everything, even crocs, it's on TikTok» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: capybaras, it, TikTok · What happens: be, croc · To what, where: friends, TikTok · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 42 «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» 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 friends	punct
2	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 friends	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friends	cop
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 everything	case
6	literally	literally	ADV	_	7 everything	advmod
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 friends	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crocs	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 crocs	advmod
10	crocs	croc	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friends	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 TikTok	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 TikTok	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 TikTok	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 TikTok	case
15	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 crocs	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 TikTok	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 TikTok	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	capybaras	friends		with everything	tree rules
2	croc in a quote	present	capybaras not said here				tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	it		TikTok		tree rules
4	is	present	TikTok			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

Yes, crocodiles guard capybaras from jaguars, it's a proper team-up

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 guard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guard	nsubj
4	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guard	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 jaguars	case
7	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 capybaras	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guard	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 up	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 up	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 up	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 up	amod
13	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 up	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 team	punct
15	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guard	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	crocodiles	capybaras				from jaguars	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent capybara=Beneficiary from jaguar=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a proper team up					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They are calm and tolerant, but caimans and jaguars still hunt them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calm	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 calm	cop
3	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tolerant	cc
5	tolerant	tolerant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 calm	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hunt	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hunt	cc
8	caimans	caiman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hunt	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 jaguars	cc
10	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 caimans	conj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 hunt	advmod
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 calm	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			calm property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here				tree rules
3	hunt	present	caimans and jaguars	jaguars = jaguar	still		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, no animal anywhere ever harms a capybara, they're too chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 harms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 animal	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harms	nsubj
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 ever	advmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 harms	advmod
7	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chill	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 capybara	det
9	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harms	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 harms	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chill	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chill	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 chill	advmod
14	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	present	no animal	a capybara			ever		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus capybara=Experiencer
2	is	present	they					chill property	tree rules

Option 4

No, capybaras hunt crocodiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hunt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct
3	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	nsubj
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	capybaras	crocodiles					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Theme

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