Test 10 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…

«dugongs are basically mermaids lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dugongs, mermaids · What happens: be · To what, where: mermaids · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 174 «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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	_	5 mermaids	punct
2	dugongs	dugong	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mermaids	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mermaids	cop
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	5 mermaids	advmod
5	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 right	discourse
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 lol	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 right	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mermaids	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mermaids	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	dugongs	mermaids				basically property	tree rules
2	is	present	mermaids					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

They are giant sea turtles

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	5 turtles	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turtles	cop
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turtles	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turtles	compound
5	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	giant sea turtles					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they are half fish and half people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fish	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	cop
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 fish	advmod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 people	cc
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 people	compound
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	fish and half people				half property	tree rules

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

They are sea cows that graze sea grass, and sailors may once have mistaken them for mermaids

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	4 cows	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cows	cop
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cows	compound
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 graze	nsubj
6	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cows	acl:relcl
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grass	compound
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 graze	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mistaken	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mistaken	cc
11	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mistaken	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 mistaken	aux
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 mistaken	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 mistaken	aux
15	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cows	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mistaken	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 mermaids	case
18	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mistaken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	sea cows		tree rules
2	graze	present	sea cows	sea grass		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Experiencer
3	mistake	may · perfect	sailors	cows = cow	for mermaids; once property	tree rules

Option 4

They are a kind of shark

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 shark	case
6	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	a kind				of shark	tree rules

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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