Test 7 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

«the immortal jellyfish can't ever die» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: immortal jellyfish · What happens: not die, be

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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	_	8 die	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jellyfish	det
3	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jellyfish	amod
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 die	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 die	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 die	advmod
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 die	advmod
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 die	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	8 die	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die in a quote	can	the immortal jellyfish				ever		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
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 · ✓ the right answer

It can turn young again, but most are eaten

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	3 turn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 eaten	cc
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 eaten	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	aux:pass
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	can	It				again	young property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present · passive		most					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It is a robot

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	4 robot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 robot	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 robot	det
4	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a robot					tree rules

Option 3

It dies after one day

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 dies	nsubj
2	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	It				day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Right, nothing in the whole sea can ever kill it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	10 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 kill	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 kill	advmod
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	can	nothing	sea			ever		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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