Test 3 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

«Squirt hides in his shell when scared, all turtles do it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Squirt, turtles · What happens: hide, do, be · To what, where: shell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	3 hides	punct
2	Squirt	squirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	nsubj
3	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shell	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shell	nmod:poss
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 scared	mark
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hides	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 turtles	det
11	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hides	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide in a quote	present	Squirt		Squirt's shell		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shell=Location
2	do in a quote	present	all turtles	shell			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	is	present				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

Yes, every turtle hides its head when a shark swims by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hides	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 turtle	det
4	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hides	nsubj
5	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hides	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 swims	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shark	det
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swims	nsubj
11	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hides	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 swims	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	every turtle	turtle's head					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	swim	present	a shark						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only the babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 babies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 babies	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 babies	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 babies	det
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sea turtles cannot pull their heads in at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turtles	compound
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pull	advmod
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obj
8	in	in	ADV	_	5 pull	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pull	can	Sea turtles	turtles's heads		all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent head=Theme at all=Asset

Option 4

No, only their tails go in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tails	nmod:poss
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	present	their tails						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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