Test 4 · ★ · Endangered animals and extinction

«rhino horn cures fevers, my mate's gran says» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rhino horn, gran · What happens: cure, say, be · To what, where: fevers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 cures	punct
2	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horn	compound
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cures	nsubj
4	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fevers	fever	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cures	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mate	nmod:poss
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gran	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mate	case
10	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cures	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cures	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cure in a quote	present	rhino horn	fevers		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer fever=Source
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate's gran			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

No, rhino horn is poisonous to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 poisonous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horn	compound
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisonous	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisonous	cop
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 poisonous	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	rhino horn					poisonous property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	rhino horn not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rhino horn is keratin like fingernails and has no healing power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 horn	compound
2	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keratin	compound
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keratin	cop
4	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 fingernails	case
6	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keratin	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 power	det
10	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 power	compound
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		horn keratin				like fingernails	tree rules
2	have	present	horn keratin	no healing power					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 3

Yes, rhino horn cures every illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 horn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horn	compound
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cures	nsubj
5	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 illness	det
7	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cures	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	rhino horn	every illness					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source

Option 4

Yes, but only if it is ground into powder and mixed with hot water

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 ground	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 ground	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 ground	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 ground	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ground	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ground	cop
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 powder	case
10	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ground	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mixed	cc
12	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ground	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	ground		powder			tree rules
2	mix	participle						with hot water	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with water=Co-Patient

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