Test 10 · Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the pl…
You bite a pufferfish dish and get ill. Was the fish venomous or poisonous?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, fish · What happens: bite, get, be · To what, where: pufferfish dish
This is test 10 of lesson 246 «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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: You bite a pufferfish dish and get ill.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dish | det |
| 4 | pufferfish | pufferfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dish | compound |
| 5 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bite | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bite | conj |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bite | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | You | a pufferfish dish | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | You not said here | ill 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.
Sentence 2: Was the fish venomous or poisonous?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 venomous | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 venomous | nsubj |
| 4 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 poisonous | cc |
| 6 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 venomous | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 venomous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fish | venomous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the fish not said here | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Neither, fish cannot harm you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 harm | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 harm | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 harm | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 harm | advmod |
| 6 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 harm | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not harm | can | fish | you | neither property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Poisonous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poisonous | Poisonous | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both, always
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Both | punct |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 1 Both | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Venomous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venomous | Venomous | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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