Test 10 · ★★ · Sharks
In Finding Nemo the shark promises "fish are friends, not food". What do real sharks eat?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shark, fish, real sharks · What happens: promise, be, eat · To what, where: Finding, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Sharks» 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 Finding Nemo the shark promises "fish are friends, not food".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Finding | case |
| 2 | Finding | Finding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 promises | obl |
| 3 | Nemo | Nemo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Finding | flat |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shark | det |
| 5 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promises | nsubj |
| 6 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 friends | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 friends | cop |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 promises | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 food | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 food | advmod |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 promises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | the shark | Finding | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | fish | friends and food | 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.
Sentence 2: What do real sharks eat?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sharks | amod |
| 4 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | eat | present | real sharks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Real sharks eat only swimmers and surfers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sharks | amod |
| 2 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 swimmers | advmod |
| 5 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 surfers | cc |
| 7 | surfers | surfer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swimmers | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Real sharks | swimmers and surfers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Many eat fish, seals or squid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seals | punct |
| 5 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fish | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 squid | cc |
| 7 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Many | fish and seals or squid | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Every shark eats only plankton
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 plankton | advmod |
| 5 | plankton | plankton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | every shark | plankton | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Patient |
Option 4
Real sharks eat only green seaweed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sharks | amod |
| 2 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 green | advmod |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seaweed | amod |
| 6 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Real sharks | green seaweed | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient |
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