Test 4 · ★ · Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish an…
In The Little Mermaid, Sebastian the crab sings with two equal claws. How is a male fiddler crab different?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crab, male fiddler crab · What happens: sing, be
This is test 4 · ★ 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: In The Little Mermaid, Sebastian the crab sings with two equal claws.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Mermaid | case |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mermaid | det |
| 3 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mermaid | amod |
| 4 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sings | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sebastian | punct |
| 6 | Sebastian | Sebastian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mermaid | flat |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crab | det |
| 8 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sings | nsubj |
| 9 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 claws | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 claws | nummod |
| 12 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 claws | amod |
| 13 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sings | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the crab | in the Little Mermaid; with two equal claws | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with claw=Theme |
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: How is a male fiddler crab different?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 different | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 different | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crab | det |
| 4 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crab | amod |
| 5 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crab | compound |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 different | nsubj |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a male fiddler crab | different property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both claws are tiny and the same size
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 claws | det |
| 2 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tiny | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tiny | cop |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 size | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 size | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 size | amod |
| 8 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tiny | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | both claws | tiny property | tree rules |
Option 2
It has four big claws, two on each side
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 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 claws | nummod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 claws | amod |
| 5 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 two | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 claws | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 two | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | four big claws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient |
Option 3
It has no claws at all, only soft legs
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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 claws | det |
| 4 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 claws | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 legs | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 legs | advmod |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 claws | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | no claws and soft legs | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
One claw is giant and one is small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 claw | nummod |
| 2 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giant | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 giant | cop |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 small | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 small | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | cop |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 giant | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One claw | giant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | one | small property | tree rules |
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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