Test 10 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

«dragonfly larva got my tadpole, bloody vicious, kill it» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragonfly larva · What happens: get, kill, be · To what, where: tadpole, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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	_	4 got	punct
2	dragonfly	dragonfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 larva	compound
3	larva	larva	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tadpole	nmod:poss
6	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vicious	punct
8	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vicious	amod
9	vicious	vicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
11	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 vicious	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kill	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
14	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vicious	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	dragonfly larva	my tadpole	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tadpole=Stimulus
2	kill in a quote	infinitive		tadpole	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer	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

It is a pest that should be wiped out

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	4 pest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pest	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pest	det
4	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wiped	nsubj:pass
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wiped	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 wiped	aux:pass
8	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pest	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 wiped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a pest					tree rules
2	wipe out	should · passive		a pest					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 2

It only eats when it is ill or very hungry after a long, cold winter

The tree, 15 words

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	3 eats	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eats	advmod
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 ill	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ill	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eats	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 hungry	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hungry	advmod
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ill	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	16 winter	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 winter	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 winter	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 winter	amod
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it		ill property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a normal pond hunter, part of the pond's food chain

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 hunter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hunter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hunter	det
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunter	amod
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunter	compound
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunter	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 chain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chain	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 pond	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chain	compound
14	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a normal pond hunter and part of the pond's food chain					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is a baby fish gone wrong

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 fish	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fish	acl
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a baby fish					tree rules
2	go	participle		a baby fish not said here				wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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