Test 1 · ★ · Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish an…

«mangroves r just trees that got flooded, they'll die soon» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trees, mangroves · What happens: get, flood, die, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 178 «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 r	punct
2	mangroves	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 r	nsubj
3	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 die	advcl
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 trees	advmod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 r	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trees	acl:relcl
8	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 got	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 r	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 die	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 die	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 die	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	trees		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	flood in a quote	participle	trees not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	die in a quote	future	mangroves = mangrove	soon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every flood kills them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 flood	det
4	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kills	nsubj
5	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	every flood	them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, they are made to live with their roots in salty water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 roots	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 roots	nmod:poss
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		they					tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	they not said here			salty water		with their roots	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with root=Location

Option 3

Yes, salt water kills all trees, even the strong ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kills	nsubj
5	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kills	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 ones	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ones	det
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kills	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	salt water	all trees					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 4

No, they are a kind of seaweed

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 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

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