Test 2 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…

In Moana, Tamatoa is a giant crab bigger than a house. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tamatoa · What happens: be · To what, where: giant crab, Moana

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: In Moana, Tamatoa is a giant crab bigger than a house.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Moana	case
2	Moana	Moana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 crab	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Moana	punct
4	Tamatoa	Tamatoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 crab	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crab	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crab	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crab	amod
8	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 crab	amod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bigger	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 crab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tamatoa	a giant crab		Moana			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.

Sentence 2: What is real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	_	3 real	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The coconut crab is the largest land crab, but it fits in your arms

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crab	det
2	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crab	compound
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crab	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crab	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crab	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 crab	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crab	compound
8	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fits	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 fits	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fits	nsubj
12	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crab	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 arms	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the coconut crab	the largest land crab					tree rules
2	fit	present	crab	the largest land crab not said here		your arms			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crab=Theme in arm=Trajectory

Option 2

Coconut crabs are bigger than houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crabs	compound
2	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bigger	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 houses	case
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Coconut crabs					than houses; big property	tree rules

Option 3

Coconut crabs live only in the deepest sea trenches of the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crabs	compound
2	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 trenches	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 trenches	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trenches	det
7	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 trenches	amod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trenches	compound
9	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trenches	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Coconut crabs			the deepest sea trenches of the world			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trench=Location

Option 4

There are no real land crabs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 crabs	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crabs	amod
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crabs	compound
6	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	no real land crabs			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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