Test 5 · ★★ · Sharks

My uncle says a shark can smell one drop of blood from miles away. Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, shark, that · What happens: say, smell, be · To what, where: one drop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: My uncle says a shark can smell one drop of blood from miles away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shark	det
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 smell	aux
7	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 drop	nummod
9	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 blood	case
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 miles	case
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 away	obl
14	away	away	ADV	_	7 smell	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smell	can	a shark	one drop of blood				away property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus

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: Is that right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

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

No, that is exaggerated; sharks smell blood well, but not from miles off

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 exaggerated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 exaggerated	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exaggerated	aux:pass
5	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 smell	punct
7	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smell	nsubj
8	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exaggerated	conj
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 smell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 miles	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 miles	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 miles	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 miles	case
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 exaggerated	obl
16	off	off	ADV	_	15 miles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	present · passive		that				from miles	tree rules
2	smell	present	sharks	blood				well property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus

Option 2

No, sharks cannot smell at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 smell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 smell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 smell	advmod
6	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 smell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smell	can	sharks			all			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only great whites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 whites	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 whites	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 whites	advmod
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whites	amod
6	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, any shark can smell blood across a whole ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 smell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 smell	aux
6	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	11 ocean	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ocean	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ocean	amod
11	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	can	any shark	blood		a whole ocean			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus

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