Test 7 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

«shut up, the salmon don't eat anything going up the river? how'd they jump then» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, salmon · What happens: shut up, not eat, go up, jump, be · To what, where: anything, river, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salmon	det
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 eat	advmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	conj
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 eat	obj
11	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 anything	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 shut	advmod
17	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	19 jump	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 jump	nsubj
19	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	conj
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 answer	advmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 then	punct
22	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 answer	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 answer	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 answer	det
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 answer	amod
26	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jump	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not eat in a quote	present · do-support	the salmon	anything		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	go up in a quote	gerund		the river		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient river=Extent
4	jump in a quote	present	salmon			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be speech: assert	present		the best answer	then	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

They eat flies while jumping high out of the water

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 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 jumping	mark
5	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 eat	advcl
6	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 jumping	advmod
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 water	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	flies					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
2	jump	gerund	They not said here			the water		high property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory

Option 2

They take food from fishermen

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 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 fishermen	case
5	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	They	food		fishermen			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent food=Theme from fisherman=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They live on the fat and strength they built up at sea

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	on	on	ADP	_	5 fat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fat	det
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strength	cc
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fat	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 built	nsubj
9	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fat	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 built	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 sea	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They			the fat and strength			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location
2	build up	past	fat	the fat and strength not said here		sea			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fat=Patient

Option 4

They eat waterfall rocks

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 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rocks	compound
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	waterfall rocks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient

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