Test 8 · ★★ · Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphin…

Why might fishing together work better for pelicans than fishing alone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fishing · What happens: fish, work

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 work	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
3	fishing	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 work	csubj
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 fishing	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 work	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 pelicans	case
8	pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	obl
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 fishing	mark
10	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 work	advcl
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 fishing	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fish	gerund		together property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work	might	fishing	for pelicans; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for pelican=Beneficiary
3	fish	gerund	fishing not said here	alone property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Together they trap fish in shallow water where none can escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Together	together	ADV	_	3 trap	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trap	nsubj
3	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trap	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trap	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 escape	advmod
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 escape	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 escape	aux
11	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 water	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	present	they	fish		shallow water		together property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in water=Destination
2	escape	can	none						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Alone they cannot open their big heavy bills wide enough to catch a fish

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alone	alone	ADV	_	5 open	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 open	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 open	advmod
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bills	nmod:poss
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bills	amod
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bills	amod
9	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 open	obj
10	wide	wide	ADV	_	5 open	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 open	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 catch	mark
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 open	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not open	can	they	their big heavy bills	alone, enough, wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=Theme
2	catch	to-infinitive	they not said here	a fish		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	bill		their = they			nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Fish like to swim towards groups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swim	mark
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 groups	case
6	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Fish						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fish not said here			groups			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards group=Destination

Option 4

Fishing alone is not allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Fishing	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allowed	advmod
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Fishing					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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