Test 8 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

In a game, the electric eel lives in clear deep sea water and breathes with gills only. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: electric eel · What happens: live, breathe, be · To what, where: game

This is test 8 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

Sentence 1: In a game, the electric eel lives in clear deep sea water and breathes with gills only.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eel	det
6	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eel	amod
7	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
10	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	compound
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 breathes	cc
15	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lives	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 gills	case
17	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 breathes	obl
18	only	only	ADV	_	15 breathes	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the electric eel			a game		in clear deep sea water	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Location
2	breathe	present	the electric eel not said here					with gills	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It lives in the sea but breathes through a hole in its tail like a whale

The tree, 16 words

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 breathes	cc
7	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lives	conj
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 hole	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hole	det
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breathes	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tail	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breathes	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 whale	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 whale	det
16	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breathes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			the sea			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
2	breathe	present				a hole		in hole's tail; like a whale	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing, that is correct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 correct	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 correct	cop
5	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						correct property	tree rules

Option 3

It lives in the desert

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 desert	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 desert	det
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			the desert			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It lives in muddy rivers and must breathe air at the surface

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 rivers	case
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rivers	amod
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lives	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breathe	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 breathe	aux
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lives	conj
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breathe	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 surface	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 surface	det
12	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			muddy rivers			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location
2	breathe	must		air		the surface			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

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