Test 5 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

«look this dolphin's got perfect round holes in it, like someone used a cookie cutter» What most likely made them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, dolphin · What happens: look, get, use, make · To what, where: got perfect round holes, cookie cutter, holes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 look	punct
2	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	ccomp
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dolphin	det
4	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 holes	amod
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 holes	amod
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 holes	amod
9	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 used	mark
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 used	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cutter	det
17	cookie	cookie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cutter	compound
18	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 used	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 made	obl
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 likely	advmod
22	likely	likely	ADV	_	23 made	advmod
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 used	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive	someone not said here	got perfect round holes	in dolphin	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Attribute
2	get in a quote	present · passive	this dolphin			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	use in a quote	past	someone	a cookie cutter		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cutter=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	make	past		holes = hole	likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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

A cookiecutter shark's spinning bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shark	det
2	cookiecutter	cookiecutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shark	compound
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 shark	case
5	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	compound
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite		a cookiecutter shark						nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

A boat propeller drawing perfect circles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 propeller	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 propeller	compound
3	propeller	propeller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 propeller	acl
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 circles	amod
6	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund	a boat propeller not said here	perfect circles					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Bad sunburn on the dolphin's thin skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sunburn	amod
2	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 skin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dolphin	det
5	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dolphin	case
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 skin	amod
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sunburn	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A great white shark taking a single bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shark	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shark	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shark	amod
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shark	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bite	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bite	amod
8	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	a great white shark not said here	a single bite					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme

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