Test 7 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…

«threw my crisp bag in the sea, it's just a bag mate» Why is that harmful?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bag · What happens: throw, be · To what, where: crisp bag, sea, bag mate

This is test 7 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	_	2 threw	punct
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bag	nmod:poss
4	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bag	amod
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mate	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mate	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	15 mate	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mate	det
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mate	compound
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
17	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 harmful	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 harmful	cop
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 harmful	mark
20	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw in a quote	past		my crisp bag	the sea		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bag=Theme in sea=Destination
2	is a in a quote	present	bag	a bag mate			tree rules
3	is	present				harmful 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

The sea melts plastic in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	nsubj
3	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	the sea	plastic			day		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient plastic=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Turtles use bags as houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Turtles	bags				as houses	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bag=Duration as house=Attribute

Option 3

Bags turn into fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Bags					into fish result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fish=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A turtle may swallow it, thinking it is a jellyfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 turtle	det
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallow	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swallow	aux
4	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swallow	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 jellyfish	csubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinking	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 jellyfish	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jellyfish	det
11	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallow	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	swallow	may	a turtle	it	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	think speech: other	gerund		turtle	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	is a	present	thinking	a jellyfish	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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