Test 8 · ★★ · Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers

«found a cool mushroom on the log, gonna eat it, looks fine» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best advice · What happens: find, eat, look, be · To what, where: cool mushroom, log, mushroom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mushroom	det
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mushroom	amod
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 log	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 log	det
8	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
10	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	11 eat	dep
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looks	punct
14	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	advcl
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looks	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 found	parataxis
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 What	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 advice	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 advice	amod
21	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 What	nsubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a cool mushroom	the log		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent mushroom=Attribute clause=Theme
2	eat in a quote	infinitive		mushroom			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	look in a quote	present				fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	present	the best advice				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

Only eat the white ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 eat	advmod
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the white ones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2

Fine, just cook it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cook	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 cook	advmod
4	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cook	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 cook	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here	it				first property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Never eat a wild mushroom you cannot name; many are deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 eat	advmod
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mushroom	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mushroom	amod
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 name	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 name	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 name	advmod
9	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mushroom	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 deadly	punct
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deadly	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deadly	cop
13	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not eat	imperative	you not said here	a wild mushroom		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient
2	not name	can	you	a wild mushroom not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Theme
3	is	present	many		deadly property	tree rules

Option 4

Fine, mushrooms that grow on logs are always safe to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mushrooms	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 safe	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mushrooms	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 logs	case
7	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safe	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 safe	advmod
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Fine mushrooms	logs		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on log=Location
2	is	present	Fine mushrooms		always, safe property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	Fine mushrooms not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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