Test 6 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

«pulled a starfish off the rock to take home, it's fine, it'll grow a new arm anyway» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: starfish, best answer · What happens: pull, take, be, grow · To what, where: starfish, new arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 pulled	punct
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 starfish	det
4	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pulled	advcl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 take	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	expl
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pulled	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grow	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grow	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 grow	aux
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fine	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 arm	det
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arm	amod
21	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grow	obj
22	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	18 grow	advmod
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 pulled	parataxis
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 What	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 answer	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 answer	amod
28	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 What	nsubj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull in a quote	past		a starfish	off the rock	tree rules
2	take in a quote	to-infinitive			home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present			fine property	tree rules
4	grow in a quote	future	starfish	a new arm	anyway property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme
5	is a	present	the best answer			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

Fine, as long as you keep it in a nice dry box with some sand

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 keep	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 box	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 box	det
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 box	amod
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 box	amod
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 sand	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 sand	det
16	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 box	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	you	it		a nice dry box with some sand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in box=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, starfish feel nothing at all and always grow back whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 starfish	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 feel	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 feel	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grow	cc
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 grow	advmod
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feel	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 grow	advmod
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Fine starfish	nothing		all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Location
2	grow back	infinitive	Fine starfish not said here					always, whole property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only take the ones that already have a short arm, they're used to it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 have	obj
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ones	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 arm	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arm	amod
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj:pass
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 used	aux:pass
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 take	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the ones		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	have	present		the ones		tree rules
3	use	present · passive		they	arm	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Leave starfish on their rocks; look, count the arms, then let them be

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rocks	nmod:poss
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leave	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 count	punct
9	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arms	det
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 count	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	starfish	their rocks		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent starfish=Theme on rock=Location
2	look	infinitive	you not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	count	infinitive	you not said here	the arms			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
4	let	infinitive	you not said here	arms = arm		then	tree rules
5	be	infinitive	arms = arm not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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