Test 8 · ★ · The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp

«mantis shrimp = a shrimp that's also a praying mantis, obvs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, praying mantis · What happens: pray, be · To what, where: praying mantis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 44 «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp» 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	_	3 shrimp	punct
2	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrimp	compound
3	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	=	=	SYM	_	6 shrimp	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shrimp	det
6	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrimp	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mantis	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mantis	cop
9	also	also	ADV	_	12 mantis	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mantis	det
11	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 mantis	amod
12	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shrimp	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obvs	punct
14	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mantis	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 obvs	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mantis	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 shrimp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pray in a quote	gerund				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a in a quote	present	that	a praying mantis		tree rules
3	is	present	a praying mantis		right 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 · ← Mova's choice

It is a kind of lobster from the reef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lobster	case
6	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 reef	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reef	det
9	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind		the reef		of lobster	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it's half shrimp and half insect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 shrimp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shrimp	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shrimp	cop
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 shrimp	advmod
6	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 insect	cc
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 insect	compound
9	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shrimp	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	shrimp and half insect				half property	tree rules

Option 3

It is a kind of crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 crab	case
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of crab	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is neither: it belongs to its own group, the stomatopods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 is	nsubj
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 belongs	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 belongs	nsubj
6	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 group	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 group	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 group	amod
10	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 belongs	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stomatopods	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stomatopods	det
13	stomatopods	stomatopod	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 group	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	It					neither property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	belong	present	it					to its own group	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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