Test 7 · ★ · Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bee…

«mate says mantis shrimp sees way better colours than us, like 5 times better» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, mantis shrimp · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shrimp	compound
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	nsubj
6	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	obj
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 colours	amod
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sees	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 colours	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 better	punct
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 better	mark
14	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 times	nummod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 better	obl:unmarked
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sees	parataxis
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 better	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 better	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	mantis shrimp	way		tree rules
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

Right, it sees every colour 5 times better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 sees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sees	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sees	nsubj
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obj
7	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 better	obl:unmarked
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sees	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	it	every colour				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus

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

It has many more colour cells, but tests show it is not better at telling close colours apart

The tree, 18 words

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cells	amod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 cells	amod
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cells	compound
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 show	cc
9	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 show	nsubj
10	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 better	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 better	advmod
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 show	ccomp
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 telling	mark
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 better	advcl
17	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 colours	amod
18	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 telling	obj
19	apart	apart	ADV	_	16 telling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	many more colour cells		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	show	present	tests			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	it		good property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	gerund		close colours	apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colour=Recipient

Option 3

Wrong, it sees only black and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sees	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sees	nsubj
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 black	advmod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sees	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 white	cc
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	it					black property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Right, and it can see through walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 walls	case
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	it			walls			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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