Test 3 · The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and ot…

«tardigrades are immortal, they can't die, everyone knows» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tardigrades, everyone · What happens: be, not die, know · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 immortal	punct
2	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 immortal	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 immortal	cop
4	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 die	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 die	advmod
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 immortal	parataxis
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	9 die	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knows	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 immortal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	tardigrades	immortal property	tree rules
2	not die in a quote	can	tardigrades = tardigrade		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	know in a quote	present	everyone		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	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

Yes, nothing at all can ever kill them, not even fire, ice or empty space

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 kill	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 kill	advmod
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fire	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fire	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 fire	advmod
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ice	punct
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fire	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 space	cc
17	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 space	amod
18	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	can	nothing	them = they			ever		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, dried ones are very tough, but active ones are fragile and they do die

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 tough	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tough	punct
3	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tough	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tough	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 tough	advmod
7	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fragile	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 fragile	cc
10	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fragile	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fragile	cop
13	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tough	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 die	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fragile	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dry	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	dried ones	tough property	tree rules
3	is	present	active ones	fragile property	tree rules
4	die	present · do-support	they		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, they die the moment they dry out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obl:unmarked
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dry	nsubj
8	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 moment	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	they				moment		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	dry out	present	they	the moment not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient moment=Result

Option 4

Yes, but only in space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 space	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 space	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 space	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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