Test 1 · ★★ · Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger…

«tubeworms are plants innit, they're red and they grow» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tubeworms, plants · What happens: be, innit, grow · To what, where: plants

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 177 «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight» 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 plants	punct
2	tubeworms	tubeworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plants	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plants	cop
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 red	nsubj
5	innit	innit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 plants	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plants	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 red	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 red	cop
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grow	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 red	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 grow	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	12 grow	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 red	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	tubeworms	plants		tree rules
2	innit in a quote	participle		plants not said here		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	plants		red property	tree rules
4	grow in a quote	present	plants = plant			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	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

No, they are animals that get food from bacteria inside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	cop
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	acl:relcl
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 bacteria	case
10	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	obl
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	animals					tree rules
2	get	present	animals	food		bacteria		inside bacteria = bacterium	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from bacterium=Source

Option 2

No, they are a kind of rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 rock	case
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a kind				of rock	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, they are a kind of seaweed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 seaweed	case
8	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a kind				of seaweed	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they make all their own food from sunlight, just like grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 food	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 sunlight	case
10	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grass	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 grass	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 grass	case
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	they	their own food		sunlight		like grass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material

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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