Test 8 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

«why would a fish have see-through blood, that's well weird» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish, that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: through blood, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 have	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 through	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
9	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blood	amod
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weird	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 weird	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 weird	cop
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 weird	advmod
15	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 weird	punct
17	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 answer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weird	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	would	a fish	through blood		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	that		weird, well property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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

It is ill and losing its blood

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	3 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 losing	cc
5	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ill	conj
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 blood	nmod:poss
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					ill property	tree rules
2	lose	gerund		its blood					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Icefish have no red blood cells, and icy water holds lots of oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Icefish	icefish	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	6 cells	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cells	amod
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cells	compound
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 holds	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 holds	cc
9	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holds	nsubj
11	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
12	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 holds	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 oxygen	case
14	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Icefish	no red blood cells					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	hold	present	icy water	lots of oxygen					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 3

The blood freezes into clear ice as soon as the fish swims into cold water

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blood	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freezes	nsubj
3	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 ice	case
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ice	amod
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freezes	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 freezes	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 swims	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swims	nsubj
12	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freezes	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swims	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	the blood			clear ice		soon property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	swim	present	the fish			cold water			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination

Option 4

It is a trick of the light in the ice

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	4 trick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ice	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ice	det
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a trick		the ice		of the light	tree rules

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