Test 2 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

«found a little octopus with blue rings in a rockpool, gonna pick it up for a pic» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, pick up, be · To what, where: little octopus, octopus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 octopus	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 octopus	amod
5	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rings	case
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rings	amod
8	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 octopus	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 rockpool	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rockpool	det
11	rockpool	rockpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rings	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pick	punct
13	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	14 pick	dep
14	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pick	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 pick	compound:prt
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 pic	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pic	det
19	pic	pic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pick	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	a little octopus	with blue rings in a rockpool	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent octopus=Topic
2	pick up in a quote	infinitive	octopus	for a pic	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	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

Yes, small octopuses are always harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 harmless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 octopuses	amod
4	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 harmless	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 harmless	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 harmless	advmod
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	small octopuses					always, harmless property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, leave it, its venom can stop a person breathing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 leave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 venom	nmod:poss
7	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 breathing	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 breathing	compound
12	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stop	can	its venom	a person breathing					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality breathing=Eventuality

Option 3

Yes, the blue rings mean it is friendly and wants to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rings	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rings	amod
5	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mean	nsubj
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friendly	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 friendly	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friendly	cop
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wants	cc
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friendly	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 play	mark
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the blue rings		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it	friendly property	tree rules
3	want	present			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, it will only squirt ink on your phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 squirt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 squirt	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 squirt	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 squirt	advmod
6	squirt	squirt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squirt	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 phone	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 phone	nmod:poss
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squirt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squirt	future	it	ink		your phone			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ink=Theme on phone=Destination

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