Test 5 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

«that rainbow jellyfish thing is gonna sting me, run» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jellyfish thing · What happens: be, run · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	8 sting	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	det
3	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jellyfish	compound
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sting	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sting	cop
7	gonna	gonna	PART	_	8 sting	mark
8	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 run	punct
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sting	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 sting	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sting	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that jellyfish thing	sting property	tree rules
2	run in a quote	infinitive	that jellyfish thing not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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

Yes, it shocks with electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shocks	nsubj
4	shocks	shock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 electricity	case
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shocks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shock	present	it					with electricity	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a comb jelly, which has no stinging cells

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	5 jelly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jelly	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jelly	det
4	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jelly	compound
5	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jelly	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cells	det
10	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cells	amod
11	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a comb jelly	tree rules
2	have	present	a comb jelly	no stinging cells	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
3	sting	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It is a true jellyfish like all the others

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	5 jellyfish	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jellyfish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jellyfish	det
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jellyfish	amod
5	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 others	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 others	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jellyfish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a true jellyfish				like all others	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, rainbow colours always mean it is very poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colours	compound
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mean	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poisonous	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poisonous	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 poisonous	advmod
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	rainbow colours	it				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	present						poisonous property	tree rules

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