Test 8 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

«my mate says that long jelly thing is one animal» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, long jelly thing · What happens: say, be · To what, where: one animal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 animal	mark
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
7	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 animal	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 animal	nummod
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 right	advcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 animal	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	4 says	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	long jelly thing	one animal		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

It is a piece of rope

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	4 piece	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 piece	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rope	case
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a piece				of rope	tree rules

Option 2

It is a sea snake

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 snake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 snake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snake	compound
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a sea snake					tree rules

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

A siphonophore is a chain of many tiny animals living together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 siphonophore	det
2	siphonophore	siphonophore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chain	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chain	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chain	det
5	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chain	nmod
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 animals	acl
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 living	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a siphonophore	a chain				of many tiny animals	tree rules
2	live together	gerund	many tiny animals not said here					together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, it is one huge jellyfish with a very long tail, like a kite

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 jellyfish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 jellyfish	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 jellyfish	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 jellyfish	nummod
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jellyfish	amod
7	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 tail	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tail	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tail	amod
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jellyfish	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kite	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 kite	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 kite	det
16	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jellyfish	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	one huge jellyfish				with a long tail	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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