Test 3 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls

«saw Jaws, gonna never swim again coz sharks hunt people» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: coz sharks · What happens: see, not swim, hunt, be · To what, where: Jaws, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jaws	Jaws	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swim	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	_	7 swim	compound
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 swim	advmod
7	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 swim	advmod
9	coz	coz	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sharks	amod
10	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunt	nsubj
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swim	conj
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunt	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		Jaws			tree rules
2	not swim in a quote	present			again		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hunt in a quote	present	coz sharks	people			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	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

Every beach has a shark waiting just past the waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 beach	det
2	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shark	det
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shark	acl
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 waves	advmod
8	past	past	ADP	_	10 waves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 waves	det
10	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every beach	a shark					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Patient
2	wait	gerund	a shark not said here					past the waves	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sharks hunt people every day, just like in the film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 film	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 film	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 film	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 film	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 film	det
11	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Sharks	people			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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

Sharks very rarely bite people, and most bites are mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 rarely	advmod
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mistakes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mistakes	cc
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 bites	amod
9	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mistakes	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mistakes	cop
11	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Sharks	people				rarely property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	is a	present	most bites	mistakes					tree rules

Option 4

Sharks only eat children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Sharks	children					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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