Test 1 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

«piranhas eat a whole cow in like 5 seconds, seen it in a cartoon» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: piranhas, 5 seconds · What happens: eat, see, be · To what, where: whole cow, it, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» 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	_	3 eat	punct
2	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	parataxis
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cow	amod
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 seconds	case
8	like	like	INTJ	_	10 seconds	discourse
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 seconds	nummod
10	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seconds	acl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cartoon	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cartoon	det
16	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	piranhas	a whole cow		second		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
2	see in a quote	participle	5 seconds not said here	it	a cartoon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
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

True, but only in the zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 zoo	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 zoo	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 zoo	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 zoo	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 zoo	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 zoo	det
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A myth: piranhas have no teeth at all, so they could never bite through a cow's skin

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 myth	det
2	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
4	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 myth	parataxis
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 teeth	det
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 teeth	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bite	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 bite	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bite	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bite	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 bite	advmod
15	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	conj
16	through	through	ADP	_	20 skin	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cow	det
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skin	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 cow	case
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	piranhas	no teeth		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	not bite	could	piranhas = piranha			a cow's skin			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through skin=Location

Option 3

True: they hunt cows every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunt	nsubj
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	True	cows			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A myth: they mostly eat insects, fish, worms and plants, and attacks are rare

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 myth	det
2	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 myth	parataxis
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fish	punct
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worms	punct
11	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 plants	cc
13	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rare	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rare	cc
16	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rare	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rare	cop
18	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	insects and fish and worms and plants				mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
2	is	present	attacks					rare property	tree rules

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