Test 3 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…

«found a lobster on the beach, gonna teach it to dance like in Alice lol» What is the real problem?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, teach, dance, be · To what, where: lobster, beach, real problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 402 «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lobster	det
4	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lobster	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 teach	punct
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 teach	dep
10	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 teach	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 dance	mark
13	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 teach	xcomp
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 Alice	case
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Alice	case
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 dance	obl
17	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 found	discourse
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 problem	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 problem	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 problem	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 problem	amod
23	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	a lobster		the beach		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lobster=Attribute clause=Theme
2	teach speech: other in a quote	infinitive		lobster			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	dance in a quote	to-infinitive				like Alice	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	the real problem				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

Lobsters need a partner of the same colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 partner	det
4	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 colour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 colour	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colour	amod
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 partner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Lobsters	a partner of the same colour					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot partner=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lobsters live under water and soon die out of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 die	cc
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 die	advmod
7	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 it	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Lobsters			water			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location
2	die out	present	Lobsters not said here	water				soon property	tree rules

Option 3

Lobsters only dance at night when no one looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dance	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 dance	advmod
3	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dance	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 looks	mark
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nsubj
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dance	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	Lobsters				night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	present	no one						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Lobsters can only dance with whiting, not people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dance	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dance	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 dance	advmod
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 whiting	case
6	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 people	advmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	can	Lobsters	people				with whiting	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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