Test 10 · ★★ · Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphin…

«why do ships even carry water in tanks, that's dumb» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ships, that · What happens: do, carry, be · To what, where: water, tanks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 374 «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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 do	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 do	advmod
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	advcl
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 carry	advmod
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	acl:relcl
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 tanks	case
9	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dumb	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 dumb	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dumb	cop
13	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 right	csubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 dumb	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry in a quote	present	ships	water	tanks		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in tank=Location
3	is in a quote	present	that			dumb property	tree rules
4	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

Ships carry water to feed the gobies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feed	mark
5	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gobies	det
7	gobies	goby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Ships	water					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	feed	to-infinitive	Ships not said here	the gobies					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goby=Recipient

Option 2

Ships carry water to wash all the fish that they catch out at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wash	mark
5	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fish	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wash	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 catch	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
11	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fish	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 catch	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 sea	case
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	carry	present	Ships	water		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	wash	to-infinitive	Ships not said here	all fish		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
3	catch out	present	Ships = ship	all fish	sea	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent that=Theme at sea=Asset

Option 3

Ships carry water so the crew can make tea all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 make	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crew	det
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Ships	water					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	make	can	the crew	tea			day	long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product

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

Ships carry water in tanks to keep steady when they are light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 tanks	case
5	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
8	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 light	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 light	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 light	cop
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Ships	water	tanks		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in tank=Location
2	keep	to-infinitive	Ships not said here			steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Ships = ship	light			tree rules

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