Test 9 · Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the pl…

«komodo dragons kill u with dirty germ spit, everyone knows that» What is more accurate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: komodo dragons, everyone · What happens: kill, know, be · To what, where: u, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct
2	komodo	komodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragons	compound
3	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kill	nsubj
4	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 spit	case
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spit	amod
8	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spit	compound
9	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 knows	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 accurate	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 accurate	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 accurate	advmod
18	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knows	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	present	komodo dragons	u	with dirty germ spit	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with spit=Instrument
2	know in a quote	present	everyone	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	is	present			accurate 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

They kill only by breathing fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kill	nsubj
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 kill	advmod
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 breathing	mark
5	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kill	advcl
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	They						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	breathe	gerund	They not said here	fire					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 2

Yes, only germs and no venom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 germs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 germs	advmod
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 venom	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 venom	det
7	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 germs	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They have venom glands in their jaws, found in 2009

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glands	compound
4	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 jaws	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 jaws	nmod:poss
7	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 jaws	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 2009	case
11	2009	2009	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	venom glands		glands's jaws			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient
2	find	participle		glands's jaws not said here		2009			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They are plant eaters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaters	cop
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaters	compound
4	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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