Test 10 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

«why would a fish get FATTER to stay safe, makes no sense» What is the answer for a swell shark?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish · What happens: be, stay, make · To what, where: sense, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	_	7 FATTER	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 FATTER	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 FATTER	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 FATTER	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 FATTER	cop
7	FATTER	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 answer	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 FATTER	xcomp
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 FATTER	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 sense	det
14	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 FATTER	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 shark	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shark	det
22	swell	swell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shark	compound
23	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answer	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	a fish		fat property	tree rules
2	stay in a quote	to-infinitive	a fish not said here		safe property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make in a quote	present	a fish not said here	no sense		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product
4	be speech: assert	present		the answer	for a swell shark	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 turns into a rock when it swells

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 rock	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rock	det
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 swells	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swells	nsubj
8	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a rock			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into rock=Trajectory
2	swell	present	rock						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

It floats up into the air like a balloon and drifts away from danger

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 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 floats	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 balloon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 balloon	det
9	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drifts	cc
11	drifts	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 floats	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 drifts	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 danger	case
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drifts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	present	It			the air		like a balloon	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
2	drift away	present				danger		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from danger=Trajectory

Option 3

Fat fish taste bad to every predator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	compound
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taste	nsubj
3	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taste	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 predator	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 predator	det
7	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Fat fish					to every predator; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to predator=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Swelling up wedges it tight in a crack so it cannot be pulled out

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swelling	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 wedges	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Swelling	compound:prt
3	wedges	wedge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wedges	obj
5	tight	tight	ADV	_	3 wedges	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 crack	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crack	det
8	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wedges	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 pulled	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pulled	nsubj:pass
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pulled	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 pulled	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 pulled	aux:pass
14	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wedges	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swell up	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	wedge	present	Swelling	it	a crack	tight property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in crack=Trajectory
3	not pull out	can · passive		crack			tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/t10/