Test 9 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

«pufferfish are cute, gonna cook one for tea» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pufferfish, best answer · What happens: be, cook · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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 cute	punct
2	pufferfish	pufferfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cute	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cute	cop
4	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cook	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 cook	dep
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cute	conj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cook	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 tea	case
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cook	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 cute	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 cute	parataxis
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 What	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 What	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pufferfish		cute property	tree rules
2	cook in a quote	infinitive	pufferfish not said here	one	for tea	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Product for tea=Beneficiary
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

Fine, they are completely safe to eat once they have blown up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 safe	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 safe	advmod
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 safe	xcomp
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 blown	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blown	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 blown	aux
12	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 eat	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 blown	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	they	completely, safe property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	they not said here		tree rules
3	blow up	present · perfect	they		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Fine, the poison is only in the spines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poison	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poison	det
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spines	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 spines	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 spines	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 spines	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spines	det
9	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Fine poison			the spines			tree rules

Option 3

Fine, if you boil it twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boil	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 boil	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 boil	nsubj
5	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boil	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 boil	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present	you	it				twice property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, many contain a strong poison; in Japan only trained cooks prepare them

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 contain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 contain	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 contain	nsubj
4	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 poison	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poison	amod
7	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 contain	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 trained	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Japan	case
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 trained	obl
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 trained	advmod
12	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 contain	conj
13	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prepare	nsubj
14	prepare	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 trained	ccomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 prepare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	contain	present	many	a strong poison		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poison=Theme
2	train	past	many not said here		Japan	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	prepare	present	cooks	them = they		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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