Test 9 · ★ · Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish an…
«crocs only live in rivers, the sea's too salty for em» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crocs · What happens: live, be · To what, where: rivers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | _ | 2 crocs | punct |
| 2 | crocs | croc | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rivers | case |
| 6 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 salty | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 salty | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 salty | advmod |
| 12 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 live | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 em | case |
| 14 | em | em | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 salty | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 salty | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 right | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 right | cop |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 live | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | crocs | rivers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | 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
Only baby crocodiles go in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 baby | advmod |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crocodiles | compound |
| 3 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | baby crocodiles | the sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
Option 2
Right, salt kills crocodiles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 kills | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kills | nsubj |
| 4 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kills | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | salt | crocodiles | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Saltwater crocodiles live in salt and fresh water and swim far out to sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saltwater | saltwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crocodiles | compound |
| 2 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 salt | case |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 salt | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swim | cc |
| 10 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | conj |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 out | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 swim | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swim | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Saltwater crocodiles | salt and fresh water | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in salt=Location | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | Saltwater crocodiles not said here | sea | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
Option 4
Crocodiles live only in deserts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 deserts | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 deserts | case |
| 5 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Crocodiles | deserts | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location |
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