Test 8 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

Why could a shark as big as the megamouth stay hidden until 1976?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: megamouth · What happens: stay

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 big	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 big	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	nsubj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stay	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 megamouth	det
9	megamouth	megamouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stay	nsubj
10	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 big	advcl
11	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stay	xcomp
12	until	until	ADP	_	13 1976	case
13	1976	1976	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 stay	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the megamouth				until 1976	hidden property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It lives in the vast deep sea where few people look

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
5	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 look	advmod
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 look	nsubj
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sea	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			the vast deep sea			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
2	look	present	few people						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It was invisible until then

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	3 invisible	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invisible	cop
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	until	until	ADP	_	5 then	case
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 invisible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					invisible property	tree rules

Option 3

It hid in rivers away from the sea

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 rivers	case
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obl
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 hid	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide away	past	It			rivers		from the sea; away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from sea=Beneficiary

Option 4

It only appeared in 1976, when it suddenly evolved from another shark

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	3 appeared	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 appeared	advmod
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1976	case
5	1976	1976	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 appeared	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 evolved	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 evolved	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 evolved	nsubj
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 evolved	advmod
10	evolved	evolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 shark	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 shark	det
13	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evolved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	It			1976			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1976=Location
2	evolve	past	it					from another shark; suddenly property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from shark=Patient

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