Test 1 · The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and ot…

In SpongeBob, Plankton is a tiny green character with one eye who plots all day. What are real plankton?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: SpongeBob Plankton, one eye, real plankton · What happens: be, plot · To what, where: tiny green character

This is test 1 of lesson 259 «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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: In SpongeBob, Plankton is a tiny green character with one eye who plots all day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 SpongeBob	case
2	SpongeBob	SpongeBob	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Plankton	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 SpongeBob	punct
4	Plankton	Plankton	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 character	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 character	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 character	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 character	amod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 character	amod
9	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 eye	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 eye	nummod
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 character	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 plots	nsubj
14	plots	plot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 eye	acl:relcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plots	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 character	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	SpongeBob Plankton	a tiny green character				with one eye	tree rules
2	plot	present	one eye				day		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 are real plankton?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plankton	amod
4	plankton	plankton	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	real plankton						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One small kind of one-eyed animal that swims in big shoals everywhere in the sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kind	nummod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kind	amod
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 animal	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 animal	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
7	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animal	amod
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 swims	nsubj
10	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 animal	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 shoals	case
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shoals	amod
13	shoals	shoal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swims	obl
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 swims	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swims	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	one eyed animal			big shoals		in the sea; everywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoal=Trajectory

Option 2

Tiny fish that live in pineapples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fish	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 pineapples	case
6	pineapples	pineapple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Tiny fish			pineapples			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pineapple=Location

Option 3

Green rocks on the sea floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rocks	amod
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rocks	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many different tiny drifting living things, such as algae, krill and baby crabs

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
4	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 things	amod
5	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 algae	punct
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 algae	case
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 things	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 krill	punct
12	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 algae	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crabs	cc
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crabs	compound
15	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 algae	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	gerund							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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