Test 10 · Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, m…

«saw an octopus turn into a lionfish then a snake on youtube, fake right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: see, turn, be · To what, where: octopus, youtube, lionfish

This is test 10 of lesson 173 «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 octopus	det
4	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 octopus	acl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 lionfish	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lionfish	det
8	lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 snake	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snake	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 youtube	case
13	youtube	YouTube	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fake	punct
15	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis
16	right	right	ADV	_	20 right	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fake	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	a octopus	youtube	a snake obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer octopus=Stimulus
2	turn in a quote	participle	a octopus not said here	a lionfish		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lionfish=Trajectory
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 · ← Mova's choice

It is fake, octopuses cannot change shape

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 fake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fake	cop
3	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 change	punct
5	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 change	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 change	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 change	advmod
8	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fake	conj
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					fake property	tree rules
2	not change	can	octopuses	shape					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is real: the mimic octopus copies dangerous animals

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 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 copies	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 octopus	det
6	mimic	mimic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 octopus	amod
7	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copies	nsubj
8	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	conj
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 copies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					real property	tree rules
2	copy	present	the mimic octopus	dangerous animals					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 3

Octopuses only copy rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copy	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 copy	advmod
3	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	Octopuses	rocks					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme

Option 4

It was a real lionfish that turned into a snake

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	5 lionfish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lionfish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lionfish	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lionfish	amod
5	lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lionfish	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 snake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 snake	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a real lionfish					tree rules
2	turn	past	a real lionfish					into a snake result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into snake=Result

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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