Test 5 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…

«a shark as long as a bus is coming!!! get out» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bus, you · What happens: come, get out, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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 long	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shark	det
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	nsubj
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 get	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 coming	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bus	det
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 coming	aux
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 long	advcl
11	!!!	!!!	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · progressive	a bus		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get out in a quote	imperative	you not said here	long, out property	tree rules
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 must be a blue whale

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	6 whale	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 whale	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 whale	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 whale	det
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whale	amod
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	a blue whale					tree rules

Option 2

All big sharks eat people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sharks	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

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

Option 3

Whale sharks eat boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sharks	compound
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

If it is a whale shark, it eats tiny drifting food and is not hunting people

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 shark	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shark	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shark	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shark	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shark	compound
6	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shark	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eats	nsubj
9	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
11	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 food	acl
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hunting	cc
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hunting	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hunting	advmod
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 eats	conj
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	it	a whale shark	tree rules
2	eat	present	shark	tiny food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	drift	gerund	tiny food not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not hunt	present · progressive	shark not said here	people	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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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