Test 11 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

«the tuatara is just a lizard, innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: tuatara · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: lizard

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	_	7 lizard	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tuatara	det
3	tuatara	tuatara	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lizard	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lizard	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 lizard	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lizard	det
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 lizard	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 innit	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lizard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the tuatara	a lizard		tree rules
2	innit in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
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

Yes, it is a baby crocodile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 crocodile	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 crocodile	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crocodile	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crocodile	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crocodile	compound
7	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It looks like one but is the last of a separate ancient group

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 looks	obl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 last	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 last	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 last	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 group	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 group	det
11	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 group	amod
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 group	amod
13	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					like one	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present						of a separate ancient group; last property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it is a common green iguana that escaped from a pet shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 iguana	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 iguana	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 iguana	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 iguana	det
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 iguana	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 iguana	amod
8	iguana	iguana	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 escaped	nsubj
10	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 iguana	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 shop	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shop	det
13	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shop	compound
14	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a common green iguana					tree rules
2	escape	past	a common green iguana			a pet shop			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shop=Initial_Location

Option 4

No, it is a kind of frog

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 frog	case
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

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

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