Test 9 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

«the oryx is a unicorn, mate» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oryx, unicorn · What happens: be · To what, where: unicorn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 unicorn	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oryx	det
3	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unicorn	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 unicorn	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 unicorn	det
6	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unicorn	vocative
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 unicorn	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 unicorn	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 unicorn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the oryx	a unicorn				mate vocative	tree rules
2	is	present	a unicorn					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 · ✓ the right answer

Some think the unicorn legend came from an oryx seen side-on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legend	det
4	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legend	compound
5	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 oryx	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 oryx	det
9	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 oryx	acl
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 on	punct
13	on	on	X	Foreign=Yes	11 side	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Some			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	past	the unicorn legend		a oryx	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from oryx=Initial_Location
3	see	participle	a oryx not said here	side		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, oryx are magic and glow in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 magic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magic	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 magic	cop
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 glow	cc
7	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 magic	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	oryx					magic property	tree rules
2	glow	infinitive	oryx not said here			the dark			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 3

Yes, an oryx has just the one horn in the middle of its head

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 oryx	det
4	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 horn	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horn	det
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 horn	nummod
9	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horn	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a oryx	the one horn		the middle of oryx's head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

Option 4

No, the oryx has no horns at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oryx	det
4	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 horns	det
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 horns	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the oryx	no horns		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

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