Test 6 · ★★ · Viral facts and chain messages

"giraffes have the same neck bones as us lol, fake" Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giraffes, fake · What happens: have, be · To what, where: same neck bones

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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	_	3 have	punct
2	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bones	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bones	amod
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bones	compound
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 bones	nmod
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 have	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
12	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 right	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
14	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	giraffes	the same neck bones				as us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	is	present	fake					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 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody knows because giraffes are too tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 tall	mark
4	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tall	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 tall	advmod
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	giraffes					tall property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The viral fact: both have seven neck bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fact	det
2	viral	viral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fact	amod
3	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj:outer
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bones	nummod
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	compound
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the viral fact	seven neck bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 3

Your mate: giraffes have far more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	vocative
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
4	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	giraffes	more				Your mate vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

Option 4

Neither: giraffes have none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	3 giraffes	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	neither giraffes	none					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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