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Test 3 · ★ · Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill…

«baby eel in the zoo, tiny, can't do nothing yeah?» What does the keeper mean when he warns you?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: keeper · What happens: not do, mean, warn · To what, where: nothing, you

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 231 «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» 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: «baby eel in the zoo, tiny, can't do nothing yeah?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 eel	punct
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eel	compound
3	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tiny	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 zoo	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eel	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tiny	punct
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tiny	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 do	obj
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	13 nothing	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tiny	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	can		nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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 keeper mean when he warns you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 keeper	det
4	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 warns	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 warns	nsubj
8	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 warns	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	the keeper						tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	present	keeper		you				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Baby eels have no electric cells yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eels	compound
2	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cells	det
5	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cells	amod
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Baby eels	no electric cells			yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Baby eels give shocks only to other baby eels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eels	compound
2	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shocks	shock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	9 eels	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 eels	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eels	amod
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eels	compound
9	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Baby eels	shocks	other baby eels				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shock=Theme to eel=Recipient

Option 3

Baby eels only bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eels	compound
2	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Baby eels						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Even young electric eels can give a tingle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	4 eels	advmod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eels	amod
3	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eels	amod
4	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tingle	det
8	tingle	tingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	young electric eels	a tingle					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tingle=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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