Test 10 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

«ray's just a flat fish with bones like a cod» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ray, cod · What happens: be · To what, where: flat fish

This is test 10 of lesson 133 «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 ray	punct
2	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fish	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 fish	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 bones	case
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fish	nmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 cod	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cod	det
12	cod	cod	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 cod	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cod	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	ray	a flat fish				with bones like a cod	tree rules
2	is	present	a cod					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

Yes, rays have exactly the same hard bones as cod and other fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 bones	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bones	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 cod	case
11	cod	cod	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fish	cc
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fish	amod
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cod	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	rays	the same hard bones				as cod and other fish	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 2

Rays have no skeleton at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 skeleton	det
4	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Rays	no skeleton		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Patient

Option 3

Rays are a kind of turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 turtle	case
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rays	a kind				of turtle	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rays are flat shark relatives with skeletons of cartilage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 relatives	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 relatives	cop
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relatives	amod
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relatives	compound
5	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 skeletons	case
7	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 relatives	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cartilage	case
9	cartilage	cartilage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skeletons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rays	flat shark relatives				with skeletons of cartilage	tree rules

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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