Test 7 · ★★★ · Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead
«a shark in a lake? nah, sharks need the sea innit» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sharks · What happens: need, be · To what, where: sea innit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 shark | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shark | det |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nah | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shark | punct |
| 8 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 11 need | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nah | punct |
| 10 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 need | nsubj |
| 11 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 innit | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 innit | compound |
| 14 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | obj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 need | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 right | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 right | cop |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 need | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | sharks | the sea innit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | 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
Sharks in lakes are always toys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 toys | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 lakes | case |
| 3 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sharks | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 toys | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 toys | advmod |
| 6 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sharks in lakes | toys | always property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Only goldfish sharks live in lakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 sharks | advmod |
| 2 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sharks | compound |
| 3 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 lakes | case |
| 6 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | goldfish sharks | lakes | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Bull sharks can live in fresh water and have lived in a lake in Australia
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sharks | compound |
| 2 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lived | cc |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | aux |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lake | det |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Australia | case |
| 15 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lake | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | Bull sharks | fresh water | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | Bull sharks not said here | a lake in Australia | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |
Option 4
No shark can survive one minute in fresh water, it would die straight away
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 survive | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 survive | aux |
| 4 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minute | nummod |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 survive | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 survive | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 die | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 survive | conj |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 die | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | can | no shark | fresh water | minute | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | |||
| 2 | die | would | shark | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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