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Test 2 · ★★ · Sharks

In Jaws the shark hunts people on purpose. What's closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: shark · What happens: hunt, be · To what, where: people, Jaws

This is test 2 · ★★ 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 Jaws the shark hunts people on purpose.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Jaws	case
2	Jaws	Jaws	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hunts	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunts	nsubj
5	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunts	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunts	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	the shark	people		Jaws		on purpose	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme in jaws=Location

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's closer to the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 closer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 truth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to the truth; close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Sharks hunt boats, not people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 people	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 people	advmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Sharks	boats				people obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

Option 2

Sharks only ever eat people who can't swim well and splash about a lot

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 swim	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 swim	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 swim	advmod
9	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 people	acl:relcl
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 swim	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 splash	cc
12	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 lot	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lot	det
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 splash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive	Sharks	people			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	not swim	can	people					well property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	splash	present	Sharks not said here					about a lot	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about lot=Location

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

Bites are very rare and often a case of mistaken identity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rare	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rare	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 rare	advmod
4	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 case	cc
6	often	often	ADV	_	8 case	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 case	det
8	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rare	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 identity	case
10	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 identity	amod
11	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 case	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bites					rare property	tree rules

Option 4

Sharks hunt people every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Sharks	people			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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