Test 11 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…

Why might a reef have more room for corals where hawksbill turtles live?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: reef, hawksbill turtles · What happens: have, live · To what, where: more room

This is test 11 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 reef	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reef	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reef	det
4	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 corals	case
9	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 room	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 live	advmod
11	hawksbill	hawksbill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turtles	compound
12	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 live	nsubj
13	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 corals	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a reef	more room				for corals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	live	present	hawksbill turtles						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Hawksbills eat sponges that would otherwise crowd the corals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hawksbills	hawksbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 crowd	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 crowd	aux
6	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	7 crowd	advmod
7	crowd	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sponges	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corals	det
9	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crowd	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Hawksbills	sponges					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sponge=Patient
2	crowd	would	sponges	the corals				otherwise property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme coral=Destination

Option 2

Hawksbills eat all the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hawksbills	hawksbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fish	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Hawksbills	all fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 3

Hawksbills plant new corals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hawksbills	hawksbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plant	nsubj
2	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corals	amod
4	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	present	Hawksbills	new corals					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coral=Patient

Option 4

Hawksbills clean the water by filtering it through their big shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hawksbills	hawksbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	nsubj
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 clean	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 filtering	mark
6	filtering	filter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 clean	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 filtering	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 shells	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shells	nmod:poss
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shells	amod
11	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 filtering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Hawksbills	the water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	filter	gerund	Hawksbills not said here	water		Hawksbills's big shells			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location

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