Test 3 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…
In a cartoon a vampire squid bites a diver's neck to drink blood. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vampire squid · What happens: bite, drink, be · To what, where: neck, cartoon, blood
This is test 3 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon a vampire squid bites a diver's neck to drink blood.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bites | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 squid | det |
| 5 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 squid | compound |
| 6 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bites | nsubj |
| 7 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 diver | det |
| 9 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 diver | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bites | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drink | mark |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bites | advcl |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bites | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | a vampire squid | a diver's neck | a cartoon | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | a vampire squid not said here | blood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What is real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It drinks blood every night
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 drinks | nsubj |
| 2 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drinks | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drinks | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | It | blood | night | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
Option 2
It has fangs like a bat
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 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 bat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bat | det |
| 6 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fangs | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | fangs | like a bat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Patient |
Option 3
It lives in old castles on the cliffs and flies out over the sea at night
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 lives | nsubj |
| 2 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 castles | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 castles | amod |
| 5 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lives | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 cliffs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cliffs | det |
| 8 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 castles | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flies | cc |
| 10 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cliffs | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 lives | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lives | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | It | old castles on the cliffs and flies | night | over the sea; out property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It eats drifting bits of dead stuff and hides under its cloak of arms
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 eats | nsubj |
| 2 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | drifting | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bits | amod |
| 4 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eats | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stuff | case |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stuff | amod |
| 7 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bits | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hides | cc |
| 9 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 eats | conj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 cloak | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hides | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arms | case |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cloak | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | It | drifting bits of dead stuff | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drift | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hide | present | stuff's cloak of arms | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under cloak=Location |
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