Test 11 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

«fangtooth can't shut its mouth, poor thing» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: not shut, be · To what, where: mouth

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 175 «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» 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 shut	punct
2	fangtooth	fangtooth	ADV	_	5 shut	advmod
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 shut	advmod
5	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouth	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shut	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shut in a quote	can		its mouth and poor thing				fangtooth property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
2	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

Right, it never closes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 closes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 closes	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 closes	advmod
5	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 closes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not close	present	it	it					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

It has no teeth at all

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 teeth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no teeth		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

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

It can, because pockets in its head fit the long teeth

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	9 fit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fit	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fit	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 fit	mark
5	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fit	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pockets	nmod
9	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teeth	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	can	It	the long teeth					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 4

It closes it by pulling out its teeth one by one and putting them back later

The tree, 16 words

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	2 closes	nsubj
2	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 closes	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 pulling	mark
5	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 closes	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 pulling	compound:prt
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teeth	nmod:poss
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulling	obj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pulling	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 one	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 putting	cc
13	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pulling	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 putting	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	13 putting	advmod
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 putting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	present	It	it		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	pull out	gerund		its teeth	one by one obl	tree rules
3	put back	gerund		teeth = tooth	late property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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