Test 5 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…

«he's crying, he feels bad for the fish» What is right?

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

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 88 «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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	_	4 crying	punct
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crying	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crying	aux
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 feels	csubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crying	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feels	nsubj
7	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feels	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 fish	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feels	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 fish	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	11 fish	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	he		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel in a quote	present	he	for the fish; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	the fish	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, crocodiles feel sorry for their prey and cry while they eat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 feel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 prey	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prey	nmod:poss
8	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cry	cc
10	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	conj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present	crocodiles		for crocodiles's prey; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	present	crocodiles not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	crocodiles = crocodile	prey		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Crocodiles never have tears at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	Crocodiles	tears		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The tears come from air pushed while chewing, not sadness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tears	det
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 air	case
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 air	acl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 chewing	mark
8	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pushed	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sadness	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sadness	advmod
11	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	the tears	sadness	air	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from air=Initial_Location
2	push	participle		air not said here		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	chew	gerund				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He is crying because the fish was too spicy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	aux
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 spicy	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spicy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spicy	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 spicy	advmod
9	spicy	spicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · progressive	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the fish					spicy property	tree rules

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