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Test 3 · ★ · Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bee…

A town near a turtle beach wants to light the beach brightly all night for tourists. What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town, problem · What happens: want, light, be · To what, where: beach

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 232 «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 town near a turtle beach wants to light the beach brightly all night for tourists.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wants	nsubj
3	near	near	ADP	_	6 beach	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beach	det
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beach	compound
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 town	nmod
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 light	mark
9	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beach	det
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 light	obj
12	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	9 light	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 light	obl:unmarked
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 tourists	case
16	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 light	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a town near a turtle beach						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	light not said to happen	to-infinitive	a town near a turtle beach not said here	the beach			night	for tourists; brightly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beach=Product for tourist=Beneficiary

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 is the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Hatchlings would crawl towards the lights instead of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crawl	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crawl	aux
3	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 lights	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lights	det
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crawl	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	10 sea	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crawl	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	would	Hatchlings			the lights		instead the sea	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination

Option 2

The sand would get too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sand	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the sand					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Turtles would lay more eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	aux
3	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 eggs	amod
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	Turtles	more eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 4

Turtles like bright light, so there would be no problem at all for them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 problem	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 light	case
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turtles	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 be	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 be	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 be	expl
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 problem	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 problem	det
11	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 problem	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 problem	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	Turtles like bright light	no problem		all		for them = they	tree rules

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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