Test 7 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

«crocs gotta eat every day like us» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gotta · What happens: croc, eat, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gotta	gotta	X	Foreign=Yes	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crocs	ccomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl:unmarked
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 crocs	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crocs	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 crocs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	croc in a quote	present				tree rules
2	eat in a quote	present	gotta	day	like us	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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 · ← Mova's choice

Right, every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

They eat every hour

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	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They				hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Crocodiles never eat anything at all, they live on the sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 eat	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 anything	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 live	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 live	nsubj
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 sunshine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sunshine	det
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present	Crocodiles	anything		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	live	present	Crocodiles = crocodile			the sunshine			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sunshine=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

After a big meal a Nile crocodile can go many months without eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 meal	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meal	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meal	amod
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crocodile	det
6	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 crocodile	compound
7	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 months	amod
11	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl:unmarked
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 eating	mark
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	a Nile crocodile				after a big meal; month		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	a Nile crocodile not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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