Test 3 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

«that seahorse is well fat, she's having babies» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: seahorse, she · What happens: be, have · To what, where: babies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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	_	6 fat	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 seahorse	det
3	seahorse	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fat	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fat	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fat	advmod
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 having	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 having	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 having	aux
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fat	parataxis
11	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 having	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 having	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 having	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that seahorse		fat, well property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	present · progressive	she	babies		tree rules
3	is	present			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

Probably he: seahorse fathers carry the eggs in a pouch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	6 carry	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct
4	seahorse	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fathers	compound
5	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eggs	det
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pouch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pouch	det
11	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	he	the eggs		a pouch		probably property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in pouch=Location

Option 2

It is just a fat seahorse that ate too much

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	6 seahorse	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seahorse	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 seahorse	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seahorse	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seahorse	amod
6	seahorse	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seahorse	acl:relcl
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fat seahorse					tree rules
2	eat	past	a fat seahorse	much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

Option 3

Seahorses have no babies at all, they just split into two halves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 babies	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 split	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 split	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 split	advmod
10	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 halves	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 halves	nummod
13	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Seahorses	no babies		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	split	past	Seahorses = seahorse					into two halves result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into half=Result

Option 4

Right, only female seahorses swell up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 swell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swell	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 seahorses	advmod
4	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seahorses	amod
5	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swell	nsubj
6	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 swell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swell up	present	female seahorses						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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