Test 9 · The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish an…

«kingfishers eat fish, it's in the name, innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kingfishers, it · What happens: eat, be, innit · To what, where: fish, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 160 «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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 eat	punct
2	kingfishers	kingfisher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	parataxis
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 name	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 name	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 name	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 name	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 name	det
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 eat	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	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	kingfishers	fish			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	it		the name		tree rules
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	kingfishers not said here				tree rules
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

Kingfishers eat only seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kingfishers	kingfisher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 seeds	advmod
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

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

Option 2

Yes, every kingfisher in the world eats only fish and nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kingfisher	det
4	kingfisher	kingfisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kingfisher	nmod
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 fish	advmod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eats	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nothing	cc
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 fish	conj
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	every kingfisher in the world	fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Kingfishers are a kind of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kingfishers	kingfisher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Kingfishers	a kind				of fish	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not always; the pygmy kingfisher mostly snatches insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 always	advmod
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 snatches	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 always	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kingfisher	det
5	pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kingfisher	amod
6	kingfisher	kingfisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snatches	nsubj
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 snatches	advmod
8	snatches	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snatches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch	present	the pygmy kingfisher	insects				always, mostly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme

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