Test 22 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

teacher said the lion "has his pride" n Ben goes "he's got loads of girlfriends lol"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, lion, Ben · What happens: say, have, go, get, pride · To what, where: pride, loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 22 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday 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	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lion	punct
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pride	nmod:poss
8	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct
10	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ben	nmod:desc
11	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 goes	nsubj
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pride	acl:relcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 goes	ccomp
17	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 got	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 girlfriends	case
19	girlfriends	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 loads	nmod
20	lol	lol	INTJ	_	16 got	discourse
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	teacher		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	the lion	lion's pride	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient
3	go	present	Ben n	lion's pride not said here	tree rules
4	get in a quote	present · passive	Ben	loads of girlfriends	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus
5	pride in a quote		lion		nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

It means the lion is very proud

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proud	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 proud	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 proud	advmod
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the lion					proud property	tree rules

Option 2

It means Ben is in love

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 love	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 love	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 love	case
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Ben			love			tree rules

Option 3

It means lions get married

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 married	aux:pass
5	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It	lions					tree rules
2	marry not said to happen	present · passive							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A pride is a lion family group; it is a joke, so laugh kindly but do not tease anyone

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pride	det
2	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 group	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 group	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 group	compound
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 group	compound
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 joke	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 joke	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 joke	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 joke	det
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 group	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laugh	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 laugh	advmod
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 group	parataxis
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	15 laugh	advmod
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 tease	cc
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 tease	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tease	advmod
20	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	conj
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 tease	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a pride	a lion family group		tree rules
2	is a	present	pride	a joke		tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive			kindly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not tease	infinitive · do-support		anyone		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient

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