Test 6 · ★★★ · Sea lions, seals and otters

Why does a whistle work faster than giving the fish straight away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, give · To what, where: whistle work, fish

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 work	det
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	compound
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 does	advmod
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 giving	mark
8	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 faster	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giving	obj
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	8 giving	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a whistle work				fast property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	give	gerund		the fish				away property	vn give-13.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sea lions hate the taste of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lions	compound
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hate	nsubj
3	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 taste	det
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hate	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Sea lions	the taste of fish					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer taste=Stimulus
2	taste			fish					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

It is much louder than the crowd, so the animal can hear it

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 louder	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 louder	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 louder	advmod
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 louder	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 louder	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than the crowd; loud property	tree rules
2	hear	can	the animal	crowd					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

The fish would sink too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sink	aux
4	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	the fish					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It marks the exact moment the animal got it right

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 marks	nsubj
2	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moment	det
4	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moment	amod
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marks	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moment	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	2 marks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	It				moment	right property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	the animal	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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