Test 11 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

«why do blue tangs gang up in big groups, weird» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: blue tangs, big groups · What happens: gang up, be · To what, where: big groups

This is test 11 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	_	6 gang	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 gang	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gang	aux
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tangs	amod
5	tangs	tang	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gang	nsubj
6	gang	gang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gang	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 groups	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 groups	amod
10	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gang	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 groups	amod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 weird	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	10 groups	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gang up in a quote	present · do-support	blue tangs			big groups			tree rules
2	is	present	big groups					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

They are scared of the dark

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of the dark; scared property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Together they can push past fish guarding their own algae patches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Together	together	ADV	_	4 push	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 push	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 push	obl
7	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fish	acl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 patches	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 patches	amod
10	algae	algae	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 patches	compound
11	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	can	they					past fish; together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past fish=Trajectory
2	guard	gerund	fish not said here	fish's own algae patches					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Beneficiary

Option 3

They are waiting for a current

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	3 waiting	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 current	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 current	det
6	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	They					for a current	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They are all lost like Dory and are looking for their families on the reef

The tree, 15 words

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	4 lost	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Dory	case
6	Dory	Dory	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looking	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 looking	aux
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lost	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 families	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 families	nmod:poss
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looking	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 reef	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reef	det
15	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		They				like Dory; all property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	look	present · progressive				the reef		for their families	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for family=Theme on reef=Location

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