Test 5 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

«Dory's blue so the yellow one at the aquarium can't be a blue tang, duh» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dory, yellow one · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: blue tang · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	_	4 blue	punct
2	Dory	Dory	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blue	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blue	cop
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 tang	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tang	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 aquarium	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 aquarium	det
11	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nmod
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tang	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 tang	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 tang	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tang	det
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tang	amod
17	tang	tang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blue	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 duh	punct
19	duh	duh	INTJ	_	4 blue	discourse
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 blue	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blue	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 blue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Dory		blue property	tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	can	the yellow one at the aquarium	a blue tang		tree rules
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

It must be a sick blue tang

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	7 tang	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tang	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 tang	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tang	det
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tang	amod
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tang	amod
7	tang	tang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	a sick blue tang					tree rules

Option 2

Yellow means it is a clownfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clownfish	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clownfish	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clownfish	det
6	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Yellow						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a clownfish					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Young blue tangs are bright yellow before they turn blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tangs	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tangs	amod
3	tangs	tang	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yellow	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 yellow	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yellow	amod
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 turn	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turn	nsubj
9	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 yellow	advcl
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Young blue tangs					yellow property	tree rules
2	turn	present	tangs = tang					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Right, blue tangs are bright blue from the day they hatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tangs	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tangs	amod
4	tangs	tang	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blue	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	cop
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blue	amod
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blue	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hatch	nsubj
12	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 day	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Right blue tangs				day	blue property	tree rules
2	hatch	present	tangs = tang	the day not said here					vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent day=Product

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