Test 1 · ★ · The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark

«jaws was real basically, sharks hunt people» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: jaws, sharks · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: people

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 8 «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 jaws	punct
2	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 real	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	4 real	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hunt	punct
7	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hunt	nsubj
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hunt	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 hunt	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hunt	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	jaws		basically, real property	tree rules
2	hunt in a quote	present	sharks	people		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
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

Yes, but only in summer, when lots of people swim in the sea and sharks follow the smell of suncream

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 swim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swim	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 swim	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swim	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swim	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 swim	mark
9	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swim	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lots	nmod
12	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swim	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 follow	cc
17	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 follow	nsubj
18	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 swim	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 smell	det
20	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 follow	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 suncream	case
22	suncream	suncream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	swim	present	lots of people		the sea	summer	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory
2	follow	present	sharks	the smell of suncream			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
3	smell		suncream				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

No, sharks are vegetarian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 vegetarian	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vegetarian	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetarian	cop
5	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, every shark hunts people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hunts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunts	nsubj
5	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	every shark	people					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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

Attacks are very rare; people kill far more sharks than sharks kill people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rare	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rare	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 rare	advmod
4	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 kill	punct
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	nsubj
7	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rare	parataxis
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sharks	amod
10	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	obj
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 kill	mark
12	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kill	nsubj
13	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	advcl
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Attacks		rare property	tree rules
2	kill	present	people	more sharks		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme
3	kill	present	sharks	people		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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