Test 3 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

«narwhal tusk = unicorn horn, so unicorns were real» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: unicorns, unicorn horn · What happens: be

This is test 3 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 tusk	punct
2	narwhal	narwhal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tusk	compound
3	tusk	tusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horn	nsubj
4	=	=	SYM	_	6 horn	punct
5	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horn	compound
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 real	advmod
9	unicorns	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 real	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 real	cop
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horn	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horn	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 horn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	unicorns					real property	tree rules
2	is	present	unicorn horn					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 · ← Mova's choice

No, the tusk is made of ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tusk	det
4	tusk	tusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ice	case
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the tusk				of ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The tusk is a narwhal's tooth, once sold as a unicorn horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tusk	det
2	tusk	tusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tooth	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tooth	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 narwhal	det
5	narwhal	narwhal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tooth	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 narwhal	case
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sold	punct
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 sold	advmod
10	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tooth	acl
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 horn	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horn	det
13	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horn	compound
14	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tusk	a narwhal's tooth					tree rules
2	sell	participle		a narwhal's tooth not said here				as a unicorn horn; once property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, narwhals are sea unicorns with horns of bone on their foreheads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 unicorns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	narwhals	narwhal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 unicorns	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 unicorns	cop
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unicorns	compound
6	unicorns	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 horns	case
8	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 unicorns	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bone	case
10	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horns	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 foreheads	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 foreheads	nmod:poss
13	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	narwhals	sea unicorns				with horns of bone on narwhals's foreheads	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, unicorns lived in the Arctic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unicorns	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Arctic	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Arctic	det
7	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	unicorns			the Arctic			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location

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