Test 5 · ★★★ · How animals talk

«why's that elephant just standing there with its ears out, it's deaf or what» What may be going on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephant, it · What happens: be, go on · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «How animals talk» 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	_	7 standing	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 standing	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 standing	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 elephant	det
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 standing	advmod
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 deaf	csubj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 standing	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 ears	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ears	nmod:poss
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 standing	obl
12	out	out	ADV	_	7 standing	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 standing	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 deaf	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 deaf	cop
16	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 what	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 deaf	conj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 going	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 going	compound:prt
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 deaf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that elephant	there	with elephant's ears; out, stand property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	it		deaf property	tree rules
3	go on	may · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It is deaf and just waiting there for the others to come back and help it

The tree, 16 words

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	3 deaf	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deaf	cop
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 waiting	cc
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 waiting	advmod
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 deaf	conj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 waiting	advmod
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 waiting	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 help	cc
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			deaf property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come back	to-infinitive	the others				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	infinitive	the others not said here	it			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

Option 2

It is asleep standing up

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	3 asleep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asleep	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 standing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					asleep property	tree rules
2	stand up	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is cooling its ears only

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	3 cooling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cooling	aux
3	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ears	nmod:poss
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cooling	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 cooling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present · progressive	It	its ears					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It may be listening for deep rumbles from elephants far away

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	4 listening	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 listening	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 listening	aux
4	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 rumbles	case
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rumbles	amod
7	rumbles	rumble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listening	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 elephants	case
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rumbles	nmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	4 listening	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	may · progressive	It					for deep rumbles from elephants; away property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for rumble=Theme

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