Test 4 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

«giraffe's got a long neck so it must have like 50 neck bones» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giraffe · What happens: get, have, be · To what, where: long neck, 50 neck bones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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	_	4 got	punct
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 neck	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 neck	amod
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	parataxis
12	like	like	INTJ	_	11 have	discourse
13	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 bones	nummod
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bones	compound
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	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	4 got	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	giraffe	a long neck		tree rules
2	have in a quote	must	giraffe	50 neck bones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	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

Yes, about 50, that's why it bends so well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 50	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 50	advmod
4	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 why	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 why	cop
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 50	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bends	nsubj
10	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 why	ccomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 well	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bends	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	bend	present	it					well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It has no bones in its neck at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bones	det
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 neck	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no bones		its neck at all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It has 7, like us; each bone is just very long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 has	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 us	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 has	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bone	det
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 long	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	7				like us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Patient
2	is	present	each bone					long property	tree rules

Option 4

It has about 25, like a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 25	advmod
4	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 snake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snake	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	25					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 25=Patient

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