Test 6 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls

«shark broke a tooth on a boat lol, toothless now» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: shark · What happens: break, be · To what, where: tooth, boat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	3 broke	punct
2	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tooth	det
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 broke	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 toothless	punct
11	toothless	toothless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broke	conj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 broke	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 broke	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	3 broke	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	past	shark	a tooth		a boat	now		tree rules
2	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

No, shark teeth never break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 teeth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	compound
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 break	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 break	advmod
6	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break	present	shark teeth						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, it will now eat only soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 soup	advmod
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	future	it	soup			now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient

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

A new tooth soon moves forward from the rows behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tooth	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tooth	amod
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moves	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 moves	advmod
5	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	5 moves	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 rows	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rows	det
9	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 moves	obl
10	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 moves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move forward	present	a new tooth			the rows		behind, forward, soon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from row=Trajectory

Option 4

Yes, sharks grow only one set of teeth in their whole lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 set	nummod
7	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 set	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 lives	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lives	nmod:poss
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lives	amod
13	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	sharks	one set of teeth		sharks's whole lives			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location set=Theme

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