Test 10 · ★ · The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?

«guinea pig + capybara both rodents, so same size near enough» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guinea pig · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ 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	_	3 pig	punct
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pig	compound
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 right	nsubj
4	+	+	SYM	_	5 capybara	cc
5	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pig	conj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rodents	det
7	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pig	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 size	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 same	advmod
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 size	amod
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pig	conj
12	near	near	ADV	_	11 size	advmod
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 near	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 pig	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	guinea pig + capybara and both rodents and same size					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, the guinea pig is bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pig	det
4	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pig	compound
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bigger	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bigger	cop
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the guinea pig					big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they weigh about the same, give or take a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 weigh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weigh	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weigh	nsubj
4	weigh	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 same	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weigh	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weigh	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 take	cc
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 give	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	they		about the same	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	give	infinitive	they not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	take	infinitive	they not said here	a bit		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, a capybara can be about 50 times heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 capybara	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 capybara	det
4	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 heavier	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 heavier	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 50	advmod
8	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heavier	obl:unmarked
10	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 capybara	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can					time	heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, but the capybara has much longer legs, that's all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 has	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 capybara	det
5	capybara	capybara	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 legs	advmod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 all	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 all	cop
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 legs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the capybara	legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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