Test 2 · ★ · The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark

«biggest fish = scariest teeth, has to be» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: biggest fish · What happens: have, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	3 fish	punct
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
4	=	=	SYM	_	6 teeth	cc
5	scariest	scarey	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fish	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fish	punct
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	csubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 be	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 right	cop
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 be	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	biggest fish = scariest teeth						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive						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

Yes, the whale shark eats seals and dolphins with its huge teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shark	det
4	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shark	compound
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eats	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dolphins	cc
9	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seals	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the whale shark	seals and dolphins				with shark's huge teeth	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Patient

Option 2

The biggest fish is the blue whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whale	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whale	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whale	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whale	amod
7	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the biggest fish	the blue whale					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The biggest fish, the whale shark, filters tiny plankton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filters	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shark	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shark	det
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shark	compound
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fish	punct
9	filters	filter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plankton	amod
11	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filters	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	filter	present	the biggest fish and the whale shark	tiny plankton					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent plankton=Initial_Location

Option 4

The biggest fish is the great white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 white	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 white	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 white	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 white	amod
7	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the biggest fish	the great white					tree rules

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