Test 10 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

«emus are just Aussie ostriches» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: emus, Aussie ostriches · What happens: be · To what, where: Aussie ostriches

This is test 10 · ★★ 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 ostriches	punct
2	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ostriches	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ostriches	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 ostriches	advmod
5	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ostriches	amod
6	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 true	nsubj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 ostriches	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 true	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	emus	Aussie ostriches					tree rules
2	is	present	Aussie ostriches					true 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

Yes, ostriches are baby emus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 emus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 emus	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 emus	cop
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 emus	compound
6	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ostriches	baby emus					tree rules

Option 2

No, emus can fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	emus						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Emus are a different bird, the second tallest after the ostrich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bird	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tallest	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tallest	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 tallest	amod
9	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 bird	nmod
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 ostrich	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ostrich	det
12	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tallest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Emus	a different bird				the second tallest nmod	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, they are the same species, just living in a different country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 species	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 species	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 species	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 species	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 species	amod
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 living	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 living	advmod
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 species	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 country	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 country	det
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 country	amod
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the same species					tree rules
2	live	gerund	the same species not said here			a different country			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

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