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Divers spear lionfish and restaurants cook them. Why is this helpful in places where lionfish spread?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Divers, this, lionfish · What happens: cook, be, spread · To what, where: restaurants, places

This is test 11 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

Sentence 1: Divers spear lionfish and restaurants cook them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cook	nsubj
2	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lionfish	compound
3	lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Divers	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 restaurants	cc
5	restaurants	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Divers	conj
6	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cook	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present	Divers and spear lionfish and restaurants	restaurants = restaurant					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Why is this helpful in places where lionfish spread?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 helpful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 helpful	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 helpful	nsubj
4	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 places	case
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 helpful	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 spread	advmod
8	lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	nsubj
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 places	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 helpful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this			places		helpful property	tree rules
2	spread	present	lionfish						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Lionfish are endangered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 endangered	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 endangered	cop
3	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lionfish					endangered property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lionfish eat many small reef fish and have few hunters there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
5	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fish	compound
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hunters	amod
10	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Lionfish	many small reef fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	have	present	Lionfish not said here	few hunters		there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient

Option 3

It makes the water warmer

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the water				warm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product

Option 4

Lionfish are the reef's only cleaners, so the fish get sick without them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cleaners	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cleaners	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reef	det
4	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaners	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 reef	case
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cleaners	amod
7	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cleaners	conj
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lionfish	the reef's only cleaners					tree rules
2	get	present	the fish					without Lionfish; sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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