Test 11 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

Is a starfish with six arms a mistake of nature?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature · What happens: be, mistake · To what, where: starfish

This is test 11 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 starfish	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 starfish	det
3	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 arms	nummod
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 starfish	nmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mistake	det
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arms	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 nature	case
10	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mistake	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 starfish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a starfish				with six arms	tree rules
2	mistake		nature						nom mistake «act intransitive»: of=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

No, it is a baby octopus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 octopus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 octopus	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 octopus	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 octopus	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 octopus	compound
7	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a baby octopus					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, all starfish must have five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 starfish	det
4	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	all starfish	five					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it is two starfish joined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 starfish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 starfish	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 starfish	cop
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 starfish	nummod
6	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 starfish	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	two starfish					tree rules
2	join	participle		two starfish not said here					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, some kinds have more arms, and a lost arm can regrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 kinds	det
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 arms	amod
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 regrow	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 regrow	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 arm	det
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 arm	amod
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 regrow	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 regrow	aux
14	regrow	regrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	some kinds	more arms	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regrow	can	a lost arm		tree rules

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