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Test 6 · ★★ · Sharks

Why would a swimsuit maker copy shark skin?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 skin	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shark	det
4	swimsuit	swimsuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maker	compound
5	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 copy	compound
6	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shark	compound
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	compound
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It keeps the swimmer warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swimmer	det
4	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the swimmer				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme

Option 2

It stops sharks noticing you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stops	obj
4	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sharks	acl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 noticing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	sharks					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality shark=Eventuality
2	notice	gerund	sharks not said here	you					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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

Its tiny scales help water flow smoothly, so you swim faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 scales	nmod:poss
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scales	amod
3	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flow	compound
6	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
7	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	_	6 flow	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 swim	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 swim	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 swim	nsubj
11	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	conj
12	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Its tiny scales						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	flow	infinitive	Its tiny scales not said here					smoothly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swim	present	you					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It makes the swimmer look big and scary to the sharks in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swimmer	det
4	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scary	cc
8	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sharks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sharks	det
11	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the swimmer					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the swimmer not said here			the water		to the sharks; big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to shark=Experiencer

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