Test 11 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

«stinger net, ugh, why can't we just swim anywhere» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: not swim, be · To what, where: stinger net · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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 net	punct
2	stinger	stinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 net	compound
3	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swim	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 net	punct
5	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	12 swim	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swim	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 swim	advmod
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 swim	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 swim	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 swim	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 swim	advmod
12	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 swim	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 swim	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swim	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 swim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim in a quote	can	we	stinger net				anywhere property	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

They stop people swimming too far out to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 people	acl
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 out	advmod
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 swimming	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 sea	case
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	They	people					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality
2	swim	gerund	people not said here			sea		out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They catch crabs for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 catch	nsubj
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	They	crabs				for dinner	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent crab=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary

Option 3

They are only there for decoration and photos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 there	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 decoration	case
6	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 photos	cc
8	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 decoration	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					for decoration and photos; there property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The nets keep box jellyfish away from swimmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nets	det
2	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jellyfish	compound
5	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 swimmers	case
8	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	present	the nets	box jellyfish		swimmers		away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer jellyfish=Beneficiary from swimmer=Eventuality

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