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Test 5 · ★★★ · Sea lions, seals and otters

A seal is blindfolded in a pool and still catches a fish. How?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: blindfold, catch · To what, where: seal, pool, fish

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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

Sentence 1: A seal is blindfolded in a pool and still catches a fish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seal	det
2	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blindfolded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blindfolded	aux:pass
4	blindfolded	blindfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blindfolded	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 catches	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 catches	advmod
10	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blindfolded	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catches	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blindfolded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blindfold	present · passive		a seal		a pool			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	catch	present		a fish			still		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: How?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It hears the fish breathing

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	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breathing	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathing	compound
5	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	It	the fish breathing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer breathing=Stimulus

Option 2

It sees through the blindfold

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	2 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 blindfold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 blindfold	det
5	blindfold	blindfold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sees	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	It			the blindfold			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It smells the fish from far away through the water

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	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 away	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	2 smells	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	It	the fish				away property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its whiskers follow the swirl the fish left behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 whiskers	nmod:poss
2	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 follow	nsubj
3	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swirl	det
5	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follow	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follow	obj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fish	acl
9	behind	behind	ADV	_	8 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Its whiskers	the swirl					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent swirl=Theme fish=Attribute
2	leave behind	participle		the fish not said here				behind property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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