Test 8 · ★ · Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present

Why did the great white and megalodon probably compete?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: megalodon · What happens: do, compete · To what, where: great white

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 273 «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 white	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 white	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 compete	cc
7	megalodon	megalodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 compete	nsubj
8	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 compete	advmod
9	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 white	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the great white					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Eventuality
2	compete	infinitive	megalodon					probably property	vn battle-36.4 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They ate at the same level of the food chain

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 level	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 level	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 level	amod
6	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 chain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chain	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chain	compound
10	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 level	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They			the same level of the food chain			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They were the very same species

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	6 species	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 species	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 species	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 species	amod
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	the same species					tree rules

Option 3

They both ate the same kinds of seaweed

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	3 ate	nsubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kinds	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kinds	amod
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 seaweed	case
8	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kinds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They	the same kinds of seaweed					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

Option 4

They shared one cave and fought over who slept there

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 shared	nsubj
2	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cave	nummod
4	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shared	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fought	cc
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shared	conj
7	over	over	SCONJ	_	9 slept	mark
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fought	ccomp
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	share	past	They	one cave		tree rules
2	fight	past	They not said here			tree rules
3	sleep	past			there	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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