Test 10 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls

«hammerhead's head is a weird design, total fail» Why is it actually useful?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: head, weird design · What happens: be · To what, where: weird design

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 134 «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» 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	_	8 design	punct
2	hammerhead	hammerhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 hammerhead	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 design	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 design	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 design	det
7	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 design	amod
8	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 useful	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fail	punct
10	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fail	amod
11	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 design	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 fail	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 useful	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 useful	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 useful	nsubj
16	actually	actually	ADV	_	17 useful	advmod
17	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	hammerhead's head	a weird design					tree rules
2	is	present	a weird design					actually, useful 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 uses it only to look scary

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	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 uses	advcl
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	It	it					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive						scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Eyes and electric sensors spread wide help it find and pin down prey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sensors	cc
3	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sensors	amod
4	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eyes	conj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 help	nsubj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pin	cc
11	pin	pin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 find	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 pin	compound:prt
13	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spread	present	Eyes and electric sensors		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	present	wide	it	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	find	infinitive			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	pin down	infinitive		prey	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient

Option 3

It is no use at all

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	4 use	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 use	det
4	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 use	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	no use		all			tree rules

Option 4

It uses it to knock over small fishing boats and then steal all the fish

The tree, 15 words

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	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 knock	mark
5	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 uses	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 boats	case
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boats	amod
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boats	compound
9	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knock	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 steal	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 steal	advmod
12	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knock	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 fish	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	use	present	It	it			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	knock	to-infinitive			small fishing boats		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over boat=Location
3	steal	infinitive		all fish		then	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fish=Theme

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