Test 5 · ★ · What a child can do for nature

«turtles are thick, who eats a bag lol» Why do they do it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turtles · What happens: be, eat, do · To what, where: bag

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 285 «What a child can do for nature» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thick	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eats	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obj
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 eats	discourse
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 do	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thick	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	turtles		thick property	tree rules
2	eat in a quote	present		a bag		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient
3	do	present · do-support	turtles = turtle	bag		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

Turtles want to build nests with it on the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 build	mark
4	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 build	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 beach	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beach	det
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Turtles						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	build not said to happen	to-infinitive	Turtles not said here	nests		the beach		with it	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme with it=Source

Option 2

Turtles like the taste of plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 taste	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 taste	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turtles	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 plastic	case
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste			plastic					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A floating bag looks like a jellyfish, their real food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bag	det
2	floating	floating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bag	compound
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 jellyfish	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jellyfish	det
7	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 food	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 food	nmod:poss
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a floating bag	their real food				like a jellyfish	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Turtles eat everything they see that is blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 blue	nsubj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	acl:relcl
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 see	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blue	cop
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eat	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Turtles		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	present	Turtles = turtle		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	is	present	everything	blue property	tree rules

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