Test 8 · ★★ · The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finc…
A cartoon lizard swims under the sea and eats fish. What does the real marine iguana eat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon lizard, real marine iguana · What happens: swim, eat · To what, where: sea, fish
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 180 «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 cartoon lizard swims under the sea and eats fish.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lizard | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lizard | compound |
| 3 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swims | nsubj |
| 4 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swims | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eats | cc |
| 9 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swims | conj |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eats | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swims | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | a cartoon lizard | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | a cartoon lizard not said here | fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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 does the real marine iguana eat?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 eat | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 iguana | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 iguana | amod |
| 5 | marine | marine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 iguana | amod |
| 6 | iguana | iguana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · do-support | the real marine iguana | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Crabs only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Crabs | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Seaweed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t8/