Test 1 · ★ · Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters

«food chain: fox → rabbit → grass, cos the fox is the boss» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox, boss · What happens: be · To what, where: boss

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 46 «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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 chain	punct
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chain	compound
3	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 rabbit	punct
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rabbit	compound
6	→	→	SYM	_	7 rabbit	punct
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chain	appos
8	→	→	SYM	_	9 grass	punct
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rabbit	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boss	punct
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 fox	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fox	det
13	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boss	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boss	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boss	det
16	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rabbit	parataxis
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 boss	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 wrong	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wrong	cop
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boss	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the fox	the boss					tree rules
2	is	present	the boss					wrong 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

Arrows go from food to eater: grass to rabbit to fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 eater	case
6	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 grass	punct
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rabbit	mark
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fox	mark
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Arrows	grass		food		to eater	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from food=Initial_Location to eater=Destination

Option 2

The grass should be at the top because it is the biggest thing in the field

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 top	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 top	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 thing	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	the grass			the top and the biggest thing			tree rules
2	is a	present	grass	the biggest thing		the field			tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, that is right

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 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

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

Option 4

The rabbit eats the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the rabbit	the fox					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient

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