Test 10 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…

«hagfish tying itself in a knot, is it ok» What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: tie, be, go on · To what, where: itself, knot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 176 «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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	_	3 tying	punct
2	hagfish	hagfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tying	compound
3	tying	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 ok	csubj
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 tying	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 knot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knot	det
7	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tying	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tying	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ok	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ok	nsubj
11	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 ok	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 going	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ok	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 going	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 ok	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie in a quote	gerund		itself = it	a knot		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	it			ok property	tree rules
3	go on	present · progressive					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 dying of cold

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	3 dying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	aux
3	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cold	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · progressive	It					of cold	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer

Option 2

It is lost

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	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

It is trying to sleep in a knot so it does not drift

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	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 knot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knot	det
8	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 drift	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drift	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 drift	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 drift	advmod
13	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive		a knot	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in knot=Location
3	not drift not said to happen	present · do-support	knot		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It ties knots to wipe off its slime and tear food

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 ties	nsubj
2	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ties	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wipe	mark
5	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ties	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 wipe	compound:prt
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 slime	nmod:poss
8	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wipe	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tear	cc
10	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wipe	conj
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tie	present	It	knots	tree rules
2	wipe off	to-infinitive		its slime	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent slime=Source
3	tear	infinitive		food	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location food=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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