Test 5 · ★ · Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfi…

«sat on a white beach in the Maldives, someone said it's fish poo lol» Could that be right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, beach, that · What happens: sit, say, be · To what, where: white beach, fish poo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 sat	punct
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 beach	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beach	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beach	amod
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Maldives	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Maldives	det
9	Maldives	Maldive	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 poo	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 poo	cop
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poo	compound
16	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
17	lol	lol	INTJ	_	16 poo	discourse
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 poo	punct
19	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 right	aux
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 right	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past			a white beach	in the Maldives	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	someone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	beach	fish poo			tree rules
4	is	could	that			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, sand is made from salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		sand		salt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from salt=Material

Option 2

No, all sand comes from mountains, washed down by rivers to the sea

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 comes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 washed	punct
9	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mountains	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 washed	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 rivers	case
12	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 washed	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 washed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	all sand			mountains			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location
2	wash down	participle		mountains not said here				by rivers; to the sea	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, much of the sand there comes from parrotfish grinding up coral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 much	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 comes	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sand	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 much	nmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sand	advmod
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 parrotfish	case
10	parrotfish	parrotfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 comes	obl
11	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 parrotfish	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 grinding	compound:prt
13	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grinding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	much of the sand			parrotfish			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from parrotfish=Initial_Location
2	grind up	gerund	parrotfish not said here	coral					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coral=Patient

Option 4

Yes, but only from whale poo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 poo	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 poo	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 poo	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 poo	case
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poo	compound
7	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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