Test 11 · ★★ · Sharks

Why do you think sharks' numbers fall so fast when many are caught?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, numbers · What happens: think, fall, catch · To what, where: many · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 numbers	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 sharks	case
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	ccomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fall	advmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 caught	mark
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 caught	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 caught	aux:pass
14	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fall	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fall	present	sharks's numbers		fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	present · passive		many		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

They lay millions of eggs

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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	They	millions of eggs					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location million=Theme

Option 2

They live only a year anyway

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 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 year	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They				year	anyway property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They grow slowly and have few young

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 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 young	amod
7	young	young	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	They not said here	few young					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient

Option 4

They swim into nets on purpose

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 swim	nsubj
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 nets	case
4	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swim	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	They			nets		on purpose	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into net=Destination

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