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Test 9 · The big cats house: lions and tigers up close

A pet shop says its white tiger cub is «a rare kind from the Arctic». What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pet shop, white tiger cub · What happens: say, be · To what, where: rare kind, Arctic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: A pet shop says its white tiger cub is «a rare kind from the Arctic».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shop	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shop	compound
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cub	nmod:poss
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cub	amod
7	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cub	compound
8	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kind	det
12	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kind	amod
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Arctic	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Arctic	det
16	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a pet shop						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	shop's white tiger cub	a rare kind		the Arctic			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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It is an ordinary Bengal tiger with a rare pale gene

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	6 tiger	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tiger	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tiger	det
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiger	amod
5	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tiger	compound
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 gene	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gene	det
9	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gene	amod
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gene	amod
11	gene	gene	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a ordinary Bengal tiger				with a rare pale gene	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, white tigers live wild in the Arctic and hunt seals on the ice

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tigers	amod
4	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 live	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Arctic	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Arctic	det
9	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hunt	cc
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	conj
12	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunt	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ice	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ice	det
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	white tigers			the Arctic		wild property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location
2	hunt	present	white tigers not said here	seals		the ice			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seal=Theme on ice=Location

Option 3

It is a separate species found only in zoos

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	5 species	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 species	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 species	det
4	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 species	amod
5	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 species	acl
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 zoos	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 zoos	case
9	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a separate species					tree rules
2	find	participle		a separate species not said here		zoos			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is a polar bear cub in disguise

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	6 cub	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cub	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cub	det
4	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cub	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cub	compound
6	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 disguise	case
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cub	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a polar bear cub		disguise			tree rules

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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