Test 5 · ★★★ · Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead

«sharks hunt humans, saw Jaws, never going in the sea» What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sharks, best reply · What happens: hunt, see, not go, be · To what, where: humans, Jaws, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	_	3 hunt	punct
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	conj
7	Jaws	Jaws	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 going	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saw	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 saw	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reply	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 reply	amod
19	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hunt in a quote	present	sharks	humans		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent human=Theme
2	see in a quote	past	sharks not said here	Jaws		tree rules
3	not go in a quote	gerund			the sea	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
4	is a	present	the best reply			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 · ✓ the right answer

Bites are rare, about 70 a year worldwide, many of them mistakes; follow beach safety

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rare	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rare	cop
3	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 70	advmod
6	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 year	nummod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rare	parataxis
9	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	_	8 year	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mistakes	punct
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mistakes	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 many	nmod
14	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 year	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 follow	punct
16	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rare	parataxis
17	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 safety	compound
18	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bites		rare property	tree rules
2	mistake		many of Bites			tree rules
3	follow	infinitive		beach safety		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent safety=Theme

Option 2

Every beach has a great white waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 beach	det
2	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 waiting	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 waiting	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 waiting	amod
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every beach	a great white waiting					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waiting=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sharks only bite people in films, never in real life, so swim anywhere you like at any time

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 films	case
6	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 life	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 life	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	amod
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swim	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 swim	advmod
14	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bite	conj
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 like	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
17	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 swim	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Sharks	people	films			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Patient in film=Location
2	swim	infinitive	Sharks not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	present	you			time	anywhere property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Sharks hunt people every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Sharks	people			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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