Test 7 · The big cats house: lions and tigers up close

«how can a bright orange tiger hide, it sticks out a mile» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bright orange tiger, tiger · What happens: hide, stick out, be · To what, where: mile

This is test 7 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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	_	11 sticks	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hide	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hide	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tiger	det
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tiger	amod
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tiger	amod
7	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	nsubj
8	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sticks	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hide	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sticks	nsubj
11	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 sticks	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mile	det
14	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sticks	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sticks	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide in a quote	can	a bright orange tiger			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stick out in a quote	present	tiger	a mile		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mile=Theme
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

To deer, orange looks like the green and brown leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 deer	case
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 deer	punct
4	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaves	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brown	cc
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 green	conj
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	orange					to deer; like the green leaves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to deer=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tigers only hunt at night, so their colour does not matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 hunt	advmod
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 matter	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 matter	advmod
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 colour	nmod:poss
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 matter	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 matter	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 matter	advmod
12	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hunt	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Tigers				night		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not matter	present · do-support	Tigers's colour			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Deer can smell but not see at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smell	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	can	Deer						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see	infinitive	Deer not said here			all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Tigers are really green in the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 green	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 green	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 green	advmod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wild	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wild	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 green	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tigers			the wild		green property	tree rules

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