Test 12 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

«a mussel 100 years old? older than my great-gran» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	_	6 old	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mussel	det
3	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
4	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 older	punct
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 old	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	13 gran	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gran	nmod:poss
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gran	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
13	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 older	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Freshwater pearl mussels can live over 100 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pearl	compound
2	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mussels	compound
3	mussels	mussel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 live	aux
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	can	pearl mussels				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No mussel lives more than a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 mussel	det
2	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 lives	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	no mussel	more			year		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme more=Location

Option 3

They live for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 ever	case
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Only sea mussels live that long, never river ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 mussels	advmod
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mussels	compound
3	mussels	mussel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 long	mark
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 live	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 ones	advmod
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ones	compound
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	sea mussels	river ones				long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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