Test 1 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

«koala bears are so cute, wanna hug one» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: koala bears · What happens: be, hug · To what, where: one

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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 cute	punct
2	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	compound
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cute	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cute	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 cute	advmod
6	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hug	punct
8	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 hug	dep
9	hug	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cute	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hug	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 cute	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cute	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	koala bears		cute property	tree rules
2	hug in a quote	infinitive	koala bears not said here	one		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

Koalas are marsupials, not bears, and wild ones should be left alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 marsupials	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 marsupials	cop
3	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bears	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bears	advmod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 marsupials	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 left	cc
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 left	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 left	aux:pass
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 marsupials	parataxis
14	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Koalas	marsupials and bears					tree rules
2	leave	should · passive		wild ones				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

No, koalas are a kind of monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 monkey	case
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	koalas	a kind				of monkey	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, koalas are the smallest kind of bear, so hugging them is safe

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bear	case
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 safe	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 safe	advmod
12	hugging	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 safe	csubj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hugging	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 safe	cop
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	koalas	the smallest kind	of bear	tree rules
2	hug	gerund		koalas = koala		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3	is	present	hugging		safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, koalas love hugs from people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 love	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hugs	hug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	koalas	hugs				from people	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hug=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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