Test 7 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

«polar bear's white so its skin's white under, obviously» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 7 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	_	5 white	punct
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bear	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 white	advmod
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 skin	nmod:poss
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 white	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 skin	case
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 white	ccomp
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 obviously	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 under	punct
13	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	10 white	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 white	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	5 white	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, white skin and white hair, all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 skin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skin	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skin	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hair	cc
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 over	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 over	advmod
10	over	over	ADV	_	4 skin	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No, its skin is striped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 striped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 striped	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skin	nmod:poss
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 striped	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 striped	aux:pass
6	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stripe	present · passive		its skin					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, its skin is black and its hairs are see-through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 black	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skin	nmod:poss
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 black	cop
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 through	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hairs	nmod:poss
9	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 through	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 through	cop
11	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 through	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 through	punct
13	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	its skin					black property	tree rules
2	is	present	skin's hairs					thorough property	tree rules

Option 4

No, its skin is pink like a pig's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 pink	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pink	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skin	nmod:poss
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pink	cop
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 pig	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pig	det
9	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 pig	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	its skin					like a pig; pink property	tree rules

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