Test 7 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

«don't touch the eel tank mate, it's like a socket» Why is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, mate, he · What happens: not touch, be · To what, where: tank mate

This is test 7 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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	_	4 touch	punct
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mate	det
6	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tank	compound
7	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mate	compound
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 socket	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 socket	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 socket	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 socket	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 socket	det
14	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 socket	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 right	advmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 right	nsubj
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 touch	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 touch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not touch in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the tank mate		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mate=Co-Theme
2	is in a quote	present	mate		like a socket	tree rules
3	is	present	he		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 · ✓ the right answer

An electric eel can give a shock of hundreds of volts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eel	det
2	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eel	amod
3	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shock	det
7	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hundreds	case
9	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shock	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 volts	case
11	volts	volt	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	a electric eel	a shock of hundreds of volts					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme
2	shock			hundreds of volts					nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Eels bite with poisonous fangs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fangs	case
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fangs	amod
5	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Eels					with poisonous fangs	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with fang=Instrument

Option 3

Eels can jump out of the tank and strangle you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jump	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 jump	aux
3	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 tank	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tank	det
7	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jump	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 strangle	cc
9	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 jump	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 strangle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	can	Eels	the tank					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tank=Trajectory
2	strangle	infinitive	Eels not said here	you					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 4

The tank is full of sea water that burns your skin off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tank	det
2	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 burns	nsubj
9	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 water	acl:relcl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burns	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	9 burns	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tank					of sea water; full property	tree rules
2	burn off	present	sea water	your skin					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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