Test 4 · ★★ · Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphin…

In Finding Nemo, Nigel the pelican flies off with fish held in his pouch full of water. What is right about real pelicans?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pelican · What happens: fly off, hold, be · To what, where: Finding, fish, pouch

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In Finding Nemo, Nigel the pelican flies off with fish held in his pouch full of water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Finding	case
2	Finding	Finding	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flies	obl
3	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Finding	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Nigel	punct
5	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Finding	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pelican	det
7	pelican	pelican	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flies	nsubj
8	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 flies	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 fish	case
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flies	obl
12	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fish	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pouch	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pouch	nmod:poss
15	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obl
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pouch	amod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	the pelican			Finding and Nigel		with fish	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in finding=Location
2	hold	participle		fish not said here		pelican's pouch			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What is right about real pelicans?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 pelicans	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pelicans	amod
6	pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about real pelicans; right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They drain the water and swallow the fish, not fly about with a full pouch

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drain	nsubj
2	drain	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drain	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swallow	cc
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drain	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallow	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fly	advmod
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drain	parataxis
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 pouch	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pouch	det
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pouch	amod
16	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drain	present	They	the water		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source
2	swallow	infinitive	They not said here	the fish		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
3	not fly	infinitive			with a full pouch; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They carry fish for days to share with friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 share	mark
7	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 friends	case
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	They	fish			day		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	share	to-infinitive	They not said here					with friends	tree rules

Option 3

They keep the fish alive in the pouch as pets and let them swim around inside it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pouch	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pouch	det
8	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 pets	case
10	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	around	around	ADV	_	14 swim	advmod
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	They	the fish	the pouch	as pets; alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in pouch=Location
2	let	infinitive	They not said here	pets = pet			tree rules
3	swim around	infinitive	pets = pet not said here		pouch	around property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside it=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They carry their eggs in the pouch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eggs	nmod:poss
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pouch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pouch	det
7	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	They	their eggs		the pouch			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in pouch=Location

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