Test 12 · ★★★ · Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead

«why would a shark have its eyes on the ends of a hammer, looks dumb» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: shark, best answer · What happens: have, look, be · To what, where: eyes, ends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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	_	16 looks	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shark	det
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 looks	advcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ends	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ends	det
11	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hammer	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hammer	det
14	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ends	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
16	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looks	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 looks	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 looks	parataxis
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 answer	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 answer	amod
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	would	a shark	shark's eyes	on the ends of a hammer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	look in a quote	present				dumb property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer				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

It uses the hammer to build reefs

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 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hammer	det
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 build	mark
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 uses	advcl
7	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	It	the hammer					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Patient
2	build	to-infinitive		reefs					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reef=Product

Option 2

It is a deformity that makes life harder

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 deformity	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deformity	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deformity	det
4	deformity	deformity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deformity	acl:relcl
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
8	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a deformity					tree rules
2	make	present	a deformity	life				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product

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

Wide-set eyes and sensors help it look around and find buried stingrays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Wide	punct
3	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	compound
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sensors	cc
6	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eyes	conj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	xcomp
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 find	cc
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 look	conj
13	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stingrays	amod
14	stingrays	stingray	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	set eyes and sensors	it		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	look around	infinitive			around property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	find	infinitive		buried stingrays		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stingray=Topic
4	bury	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Its eyes are only for show

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	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 show	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 show	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 show	case
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its eyes					for show	tree rules

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