Test 10 · ★ · Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a se…

«glowworms r worms that glow» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: worms · What happens: glow, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 179 «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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	glowworms	glowworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 r	nsubj
3	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 r	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 glow	nsubj
6	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worms	acl:relcl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 glow	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 right	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glow	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 r	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow in a quote	present	worms						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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

They are tiny fish that glow in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fish	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 glow	nsubj
6	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	tiny fish					tree rules
2	glow	present	tiny fish			the dark			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are fly larvae, not true worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 larvae	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 larvae	cop
3	fly	fly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 larvae	amod
4	larvae	larva	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 worms	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 worms	advmod
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 worms	amod
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 larvae	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	fly larvae and true worms					tree rules

Option 3

Right, they are earthworms that glow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 earthworms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 earthworms	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 earthworms	cop
5	earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 glow	nsubj
7	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 earthworms	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	earthworms					tree rules
2	glow	present	earthworms						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They are glowing stones that look like worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glowing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 glowing	aux
3	glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 glowing	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stones	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 worms	case
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present · progressive	They	stones					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	look	present	stones					like worms	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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