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Test 9 · ★★ · Sharks

A Greenland shark grows about a centimetre a year and is 4 metres long. What does that tell you?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Greenland shark, that · What happens: grow, be, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A Greenland shark grows about a centimetre a year and is 4 metres long.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shark	det
2	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shark	compound
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 centimetre	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 centimetre	det
7	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 long	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 long	cop
12	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 metres	nummod
13	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 long	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grows	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a Greenland shark				year	about a centimetre	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about centimetre=Location
2	is	present	a Greenland shark not said here					4 metres obl:unmarked; long property	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 does that tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It must be about 4 years old

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	7 old	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 old	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 4	advmod
5	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	It				year	old property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It must have grown fast as a baby

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	4 grown	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grown	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 baby	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	must · perfect	It					as a baby; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It must be a young whale shark

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	7 shark	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shark	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 shark	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shark	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shark	amod
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shark	compound
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	a young whale shark					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It must be very, very old

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	7 old	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 old	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	It					old property	tree rules

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