Test 3 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

«lemmings all jump off cliffs, saw it in an old film» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lemmings, old film · What happens: jump off, see, be · To what, where: cliffs, it, old film

This is test 3 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	_	2 lemmings	punct
2	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 jump	advmod
4	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 cliffs	case
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 film	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 film	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 film	amod
13	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 film	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	13 film	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 jump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump off in a quote	present	lemmings	cliffs			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory
2	see in a quote	past	lemmings not said here	it	a old film		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present	a old film			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

True: they really think that they can fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fly	can	they						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A myth: that 1958 film faked the scene

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 myth	det
2	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faked	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 film	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 film	det
5	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 film	nummod
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 myth	conj
7	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scene	det
9	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	a myth and that 1958 film	the scene					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

True: they all do it every single winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 winter	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 winter	amod
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	they	True			winter		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

True, but only young lemmings do it in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 lemmings	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lemmings	amod
6	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 spring	case
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	young lemmings	it			spring		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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