Test 11 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…

«that eel ate a fish as big as itself, impossible» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eel · What happens: eat, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	_	4 ate	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 eel	det
3	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	nsubj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 big	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 impossible	punct
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 big	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	that eel						tree rules
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 · ✓ the right answer

Gulper eels can, because their mouths open very wide and stomachs stretch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gulper	gulper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eels	compound
2	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 open	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 open	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 open	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouths	nmod:poss
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 open	nsubj
8	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 wide	advmod
10	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 open	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stretch	cc
12	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stretch	nsubj
13	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 open	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	can	Gulper eels					wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch	present	stomachs						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It must have been two eels

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	6 eels	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eels	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 eels	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 eels	cop
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eels	nummod
6	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must · perfect	It	two eels					tree rules

Option 3

The fish swam out again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	past	the fish				again	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, impossible for any fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 impossible	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 fish	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 impossible	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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