Test 10 · ★ · Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish an…
A long green spike floats on the sea for months and lands on a muddy beach. What is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: long green spike · What happens: float, be · To what, where: sea, spike
This is test 10 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A long green spike floats on the sea for months and lands on a muddy beach.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spike | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spike | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spike | amod |
| 4 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floats | nsubj |
| 5 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floats | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 floats | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lands | cc |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 months | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 beach | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 beach | det |
| 15 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beach | amod |
| 16 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floats | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 floats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | a long green spike | the sea | month | on a muddy beach | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on sea=Source on beach=Trajectory |
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 it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | spike | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A mangrove seedling that will grow roots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 seedling | det |
| 2 | mangrove | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seedling | compound |
| 3 | seedling | seedling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seedling | acl:relcl |
| 7 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | future | a mangrove seedling | roots | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme |
Option 2
A lost pencil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pencil | det |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pencil | amod |
| 3 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A piece of the tail of a swimming tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tail | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tail | det |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tiger | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 8 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tiger | compound |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tail | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A dead fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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