Test 2 · ★ · Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish an…

«mudskipper walking on mud?? fish cant leave water mate» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: walk, leave, be · To what, where: fish, mud, water mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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 walking	punct
2	mudskipper	mudskipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	compound
3	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 leave	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	obl
6	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 walking	punct
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walking	obj
8	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walking	xcomp
9	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mate	compound
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 leave	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	gerund	fish	mud	cant property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fish=Theme on mud=Trajectory
2	leave in a quote	present	water mate			tree rules
3	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

Right, it will die in a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 minute	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	future	it				minute		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Right, it must be a lizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 lizard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lizard	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lizard	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lizard	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lizard	det
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	it	a lizard					tree rules

Option 3

It is a frog, not a fish

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	4 frog	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frog	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 frog	det
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fish	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fish	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frog	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a frog and a fish					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mudskippers keep water in their gills and breathe through their skin, so they can

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mudskippers	mudskipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 gills	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gills	nmod:poss
6	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breathe	cc
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 skin	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breathe	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 can	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 can	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 can	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Mudskippers	water		Mudskippers's gills			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in gill=Location
2	breathe	present	Mudskippers not said here			Mudskippers's skin			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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