Test 8 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

«bloody hell, a starfish just turned its stomach inside out on a mussel» What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloody hell · What happens: turn, go on · To what, where: stomach, mussel

This is test 8 of lesson 171 «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 hell	punct
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hell	amod
3	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 starfish	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 starfish	det
6	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hell	conj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stomach	nmod:poss
10	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obj
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 out	advmod
12	out	out	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 mussel	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mussel	det
15	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 mussel	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 going	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 turned	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 going	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	past	bloody hell and a starfish	starfish's stomach		a mussel		out property	tree rules
2	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is eating, digesting the mussel outside its body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eating	aux
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 digesting	punct
5	digesting	digest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 eating	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mussel	det
7	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 digesting	obj
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mussel	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · progressive	It						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	digest	gerund		the mussel				outside mussel's body	tree rules

Option 2

It is laying eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laying	aux
3	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · progressive	It	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 3

It is sick and dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dying	cc
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					sick property	tree rules
2	die	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

It is breathing out through its stomach on the rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 breathing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 breathing	aux
3	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 breathing	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 stomach	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stomach	nmod:poss
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathing	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 rock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rock	det
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe out	present · progressive	It			its stomach		on the rock	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rock=Destination

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