Test 7 · ★ · Dolphins, porpoises and seals

oi leave that seal pup alone, its mum's coming back. is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oi, that, mum · What happens: leave, seal, come back, be · To what, where: pup

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 27 «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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	oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 seal	nsubj
4	seal	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	conj
5	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seal	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 seal	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 coming	aux
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 right	csubj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 coming	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 right	nsubj
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leave	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	present	oi			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seal	present	that	pup	alone property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pup=Patient
3	come back	present · progressive	pup's mum			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	that		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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, but only if it's raining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 raining	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 raining	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 raining	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 raining	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 raining	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 raining	aux
8	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, the mother is usually just out fishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 fishing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fishing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fishing	cop
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 is	compound:prt
9	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the mother	fishing					tree rules

Option 3

No, a pup alone is always abandoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 abandoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pup	det
4	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abandoned	nsubj:pass
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 pup	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 abandoned	aux:pass
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 abandoned	advmod
8	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon	present · passive		a pup				always property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source

Option 4

No, seal mothers never come back once they leave the pup on the sand

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 mothers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mothers	compound
4	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 leave	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 leave	nsubj
10	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pup	det
12	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sand	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sand	det
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	present	seal mothers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	present	mothers = mother	the pup		the sand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pup=Theme on sand=Location

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