Test 2 · ★★★ · The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and g…

«piranhas can eat a whole cow in like 5 seconds, saw it in a film» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: piranhas · What happens: eat, see, be · To what, where: whole cow, it, film · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 108 «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
2	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 true	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cow	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cow	amod
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 seconds	case
9	like	like	INTJ	_	11 seconds	discourse
10	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 seconds	nummod
11	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cow	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 film	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 film	det
17	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 true	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	can	piranhas	a whole cow		in 5 seconds	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
2	see in a quote	past	piranhas not said here	it	a film		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present				true 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

Piranhas are mostly shy, and attacks are rare small bites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 shy	advmod
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bites	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bites	cc
7	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bites	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bites	cop
9	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bites	amod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bites	amod
11	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Piranhas					mostly, shy property	tree rules
2	is a	present	attacks	rare small bites					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, but only to cows, never people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cows	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 cows	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 cows	case
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 people	advmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cows	conj

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

Option 3

Yes, they do it every single day to cows crossing the Amazon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 cows	case
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obl
11	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 cows	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Amazon	det
13	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 crossing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	they	it			day	to cows	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	cross	gerund	cows not said here	the Amazon					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amazon=Patient

Option 4

No, piranhas only eat grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 piranhas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj

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

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