Test 1 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…
«saw a vid of a shark WALKING lol fake right» What is the best reply?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: shark, best reply · What happens: see, walk, be · To what, where: vid, fake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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 | _ | 2 saw | punct |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 vid | det |
| 4 | vid | vid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shark | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shark | det |
| 7 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vid | nmod |
| 8 | WALKING | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 shark | acl |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 10 fake | discourse |
| 10 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 WALKING | obj |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 What | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reply | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 reply | amod |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 What | nsubj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | a vid of a shark | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | gerund | a shark not said here | fake | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fake=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | 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
Fake, no fish has ever moved over rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moved | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 moved | advmod |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Fake | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 rock | advmod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move over | present · perfect | no fish | rock | ever | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Probably real; epaulette sharks walk between rock pools on their fins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 2 real | advmod |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sharks | amod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| 4 | epaulette | epaulette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sharks | compound |
| 5 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 pools | case |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pools | compound |
| 9 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fins | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fins | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | real epaulette sharks | sharks's fins | between rock pools | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between pool=Trajectory |
Option 3
Fake, sharks die the moment they touch rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sharks | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fake | punct |
| 3 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 touch | nsubj |
| 8 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | acl:relcl |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | Fake sharks | moment | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | touch | present | sharks = shark | rocks | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme |
Option 4
Real, but only sharks in zoos can do it, after they are trained by keepers
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 sharks | advmod |
| 5 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 zoos | case |
| 7 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sharks | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Real | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trained | punct |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 trained | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 trained | aux:pass |
| 15 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 do | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 keepers | case |
| 17 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trained | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | sharks in zoos | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | train | present · passive | keepers | sharks = shark | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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