Test 11 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water

«why's the gull drinking from the sea, won't it get sick??»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gull · What happens: drink, not get · To what, where: sea

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 223 «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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	_	6 drinking	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 drinking	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drinking	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gull	det
5	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drinking	nsubj
6	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 get	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drinking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drinking	punct
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 get	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	??	??	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink in a quote	present · progressive	the gull			the sea			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sea=Source
2	not get in a quote	future	gull					sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yes, so it spits it all back out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 spits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 spits	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spits	nsubj
5	spits	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spits	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 back	advmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 spits	advmod
9	out	out	ADV	_	5 spits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	it	it				out property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

No, glands above its eyes take the salt out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
4	above	above	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 glands	nmod
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 salt	det
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	present	glands above its eyes	the salt					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it will die from the salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 salt	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salt	det
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	future	it			the salt			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from salt=Causer

Option 4

No, sea water is not really salty near the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 salty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 salty	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 salty	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 salty	advmod
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 beach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beach	det
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	sea water			the beach		salty property	tree rules

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