Test 1 · ★ · Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfi…

«diver here, touched a coral, feels like a rock so it's a rock right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: diver · What happens: touch, feel, be · To what, where: coral, rock

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 172 «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» 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 diver	punct
2	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	nsubj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 diver	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 diver	punct
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coral	det
7	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feels	punct
9	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 touched	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feels	obl
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 rock	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rock	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 rock	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rock	det
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feels	obl
18	right	right	ADV	_	22 right	advmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 right	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feels	xcomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 touched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch in a quote	past	diver	a coral		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coral=Co-Theme
2	feel in a quote	present	diver not said here		like a rock	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like rock=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	diver	a rock		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a colony of tiny animals with limestone skeletons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 colony	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 colony	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colony	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 colony	det
6	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 animals	case
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 colony	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 skeletons	case
11	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skeletons	compound
12	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 animals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a colony				of tiny animals with limestone skeletons	tree rules

Option 2

No, it is a plant like a tree, with roots, a trunk and branches of stone

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 plant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plant	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plant	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 roots	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 roots	case
12	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plant	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trunk	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trunk	det
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 branches	cc
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 trunk	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 stone	case
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 branches	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a plant				like a tree	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, rocks that grow flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 rocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rocks	acl:relcl
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	rocks	flowers					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme

Option 4

Yes, corals are just rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 rocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rocks	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rocks	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 rocks	advmod
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	corals	rocks					tree rules

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