Test 9 · Turtles and tortoises

shut up, turtles got teeth, i saw one bite a lettuce. who's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, turtles, i · What happens: shut up, get, see, be · To what, where: teeth, one bite

This is test 9 of lesson 31 «Turtles and tortoises» 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	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 shut	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 shut	parataxis
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bite	nummod
11	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lettuce	det
13	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 right	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shut	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	turtles	teeth		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus
3	see	past	i	one bite		tree rules
4	is	present			right 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

Turtles have no teeth, they bite with a sharp beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bite	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bite	nsubj
7	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 beak	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beak	det
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beak	amod
11	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Turtles	no teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	bite	present	Turtles = turtle					with a sharp beak	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with beak=Instrument

Option 2

Only the big sea turtles have real teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 turtles	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 turtles	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turtles	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turtles	compound
5	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 teeth	amod
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the big sea turtles	real teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 3

Turtles have teeth until they are ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 ten	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ten	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ten	cop
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 have	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Turtles	teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	is a	present	Turtles = turtle	ten					tree rules

Option 4

Turtles have teeth, but only on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 top	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 top	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 top	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Turtles	teeth		top			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

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