Test 8 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

«got stung on the beach, jellyfish bit me with its teeth» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jellyfish · What happens: sting, bite, be · To what, where: beach, me

This is test 8 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 stung	punct
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stung	aux:pass
3	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stung	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bit	punct
8	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bit	nsubj
9	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stung	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bit	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bit	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 stung	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 stung	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sting in a quote	past · passive			the beach		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
2	bite in a quote	past	jellyfish	me		with beach's teeth	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with tooth=Instrument
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, jellyfish have rows of tiny sharp teeth under their soft bell

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	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 teeth	amod
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 teeth	amod
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rows	nmod
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 bell	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bell	nmod:poss
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bell	amod
13	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	jellyfish	rows of tiny sharp teeth		jellyfish's soft bell			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they bite with their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bite	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bite	nsubj
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 heads	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	they					with their heads	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with head=Instrument

Option 3

No, jellyfish only scratch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 jellyfish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 scratch	advmod
5	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jellyfish	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Jellyfish have no teeth; tiny harpoon cells in the tentacles stung you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	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 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 cells	punct
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
7	harpoon	harpoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stung	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tentacles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tentacles	det
11	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cells	nmod
12	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 stung	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Jellyfish	no teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	sting	past	tiny harpoon cells in the tentacles	you					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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