Test 2 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

«girl reindeer don't have antlers, only santa's boys do» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl reindeer, boys · What happens: not have, do, be · To what, where: antlers

This is test 2 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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	_	6 have	punct
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reindeer	compound
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 boys	advmod
10	santa	Santa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 boys	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 santa	case
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 have	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	6 have	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	present · do-support	girl reindeer	antlers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient
2	do in a quote	present	santa's boys			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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

Right: only males have antlers, and they use them to pull the sleigh

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 males	advmod
4	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 use	nsubj
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 use	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pull	mark
13	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sleigh	det
15	sleigh	sleigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	males	antlers	right property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient
2	use	present	males = male	antlers = antler		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	pull	to-infinitive	males = male not said here	the sleigh		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleigh=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Right: no reindeer has antlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	5 has	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 reindeer	det
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	no reindeer	antlers				right property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wrong: in reindeer both males and females usually grow antlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reindeer	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 reindeer	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 reindeer	case
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	nsubj
5	both	both	CCONJ	_	6 males	cc:preconj
6	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reindeer	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 females	cc
8	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 males	conj
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 grow	advmod
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Wrong reindeer both males and females	antlers				usually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antler=Theme

Option 4

Wrong: only females have antlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 females	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 females	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 females	advmod
4	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

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

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