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Test 11 · ★★ · Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver

A cut-off octopus arm still tries to grab a bit of fish. Why is that possible?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: octopus arm, that · What happens: try, grab, be · To what, where: bit

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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 cut-off octopus arm still tries to grab a bit of fish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 arm	det
2	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 off	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct
4	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 octopus	compound
5	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arm	compound
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tries	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 tries	advmod
8	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 grab	mark
10	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tries	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grab	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 fish	case
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	a octopus arm				still		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grab not said to happen	to-infinitive	a octopus arm not said here	a bit of fish					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme

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: Why is that possible?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 possible	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 possible	nsubj
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					possible property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The arm has its own brain and eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arm	det
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brain	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brain	amod
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eyes	cc
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the arm	arm's own brain and eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

Option 2

The fish pulls the arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arm	det
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	the fish	the arm					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

Option 3

The arm is still a whole octopus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arm	det
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 octopus	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 octopus	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	7 octopus	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 octopus	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 octopus	amod
7	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Each arm has its own big bundle of nerve cells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 arm	det
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bundle	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bundle	amod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bundle	amod
7	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cells	case
9	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cells	compound
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bundle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	each arm	arm's own big bundle of nerve cells					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient

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