Test 1 · Crocodiles and alligators

in peter pan the croc swallows a clock and wants to chew up captain hook. what's wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: croc · What happens: swallow, want, chew up, be · To what, where: clock, peter pan, captain hook

This is test 1 of lesson 29 «Crocodiles and alligators» 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	in	in	ADP	_	3 pan	case
2	peter	peter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pan	compound
3	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 croc	det
5	croc	croc	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	nsubj
6	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clock	det
8	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wants	cc
10	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swallows	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 chew	mark
12	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wants	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 chew	compound:prt
14	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hook	compound
15	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chew	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swallows	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 wrong	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wrong	cop
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swallows	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 wrong	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 swallows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	the croc	a clock	peter pan		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
2	want	present	the croc not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	chew up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the croc not said here	captain hook			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient
4	is	present				with that; wrong 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.

The options

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

Real crocodiles can't chew; they tear off chunks and swallow them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crocodiles	amod
2	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chew	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chew	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 chew	advmod
5	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 tear	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tear	nsubj
8	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chew	parataxis
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 tear	compound:prt
10	chunks	chunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tear	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swallow	cc
12	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tear	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not chew	can	Real crocodiles		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tear off	present	crocodiles = crocodile	chunks	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location chunk=Theme
3	swallow	infinitive	crocodiles = crocodile not said here	chunks = chunk	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Real crocodiles only eat clocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crocodiles	amod
2	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Real crocodiles	clocks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, crocodiles chew like we do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 crocodiles	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chew	nsubj
4	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	Nothing crocodiles						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	we						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Real crocodiles chew their food slowly with big flat back teeth, like cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crocodiles	amod
2	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	nsubj
3	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chew	obj
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 chew	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 teeth	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flat	amod
9	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teeth	compound
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 flat	advmod
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cows	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 cows	case
14	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 teeth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	Real crocodiles	crocodiles's food				with flat teeth and cows; slowly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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