Test 10 · ★ · Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfi…
«corals only live in hot seas, everyone knows that» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: corals, everyone · What happens: live, know, be · To what, where: hot seas, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ 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 corals | punct |
| 2 | corals | coral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 seas | case |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seas | amod |
| 7 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 knows | nsubj |
| 10 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 knows | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 right | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 right | cop |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knows | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | corals | hot seas | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | everyone | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 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
No, they only live in rivers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rivers | case |
| 7 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | they | rivers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |
Option 2
Yes, only in the Red Sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 Sea | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 Sea | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sea | det |
| 6 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sea | compound |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, always
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 always | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, some reefs grow in cold, dark water deep down, for example off Norway
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 grow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 reefs | det |
| 4 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | obl |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 12 down | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 grow | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 example | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 example | case |
| 15 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | obl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 Norway | case |
| 17 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 example | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | some reefs | cold dark water | for example off Norway; down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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