Test 12 · ★★★ · Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish

Why is the colossal squid's eye so huge?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eye · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 squid	det
4	colossal	colossal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 squid	amod
5	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 squid	case
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 huge	advmod
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Why	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the colossal squid's eye					why 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 · ✓ the right answer

To catch the faintest light in the dark deep sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
4	faintest	faint	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sea	amod
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sea	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		the faintest light		the dark deep sea			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

So it can see the stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stars	det
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	it	the stars					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus

Option 3

Because it lives in bright shallow water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 lives	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	it			bright shallow water			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 4

To scare divers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		divers					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus diver=Experiencer

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