Test 9 · ★ · Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfi…

«reefs are tiny, who cares if they die» What is a good answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reefs · What happens: be, care, die · To what, where: good answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	4 tiny	punct
2	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tiny	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cares	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cares	nsubj
7	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	parataxis
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 die	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
10	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cares	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 answer	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	reefs		tiny property	tree rules
2	care in a quote	present				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	reefs = reef			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	be speech: assert	present		a good answer		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

They are huge and cover the whole ocean, from coast to coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 huge	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cover	cc
5	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 huge	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ocean	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ocean	amod
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coast	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 coast	case
11	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 coast	case
13	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					huge property	tree rules
2	cover	infinitive	They not said here	the whole ocean		coast		to coast	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ocean=Destination

Option 2

Reefs only matter to tourists who come to dive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matter	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matter	advmod
3	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 tourists	case
5	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matter	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tourists	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dive	mark
9	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Reefs	to tourists	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to tourist=Experiencer
2	come	present	tourists		tree rules
3	dive	to-infinitive	tourists not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Nothing lives on reefs anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 reefs	case
4	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lives	obl
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 lives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Nothing			reefs		anyway property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on reef=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They cover under one percent of the sea floor but hold a huge share of sea life

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cover	nsubj
2	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 percent	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 percent	nummod
5	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cover	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	compound
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 percent	nmod
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hold	cc
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cover	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 share	det
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 share	amod
14	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 life	case
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 life	compound
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 share	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cover	present	They		one percent of the sea floor	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	hold	present	They not said here	a huge share of sea life		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme
3	share			sea life		nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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