Test 10 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore

«that seahorse dad's pregnant?! is that legit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pregnant ?!, legit · What happens: be · To what, where: legit

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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	_	10 legit	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dad	det
3	seahorse	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dad	compound
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ?!	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dad	case
6	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ?!	amod
7	?!	?!	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legit	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 legit	cop
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 legit	det
10	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 legit	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	10 legit	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 legit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that seahorse dad's pregnant ?!	that legit					tree rules
2	is	present	that legit					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

No, seahorses lay eggs on rocks and then swim away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
3	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 rocks	case
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swim	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 swim	advmod
10	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	seahorses	eggs		rocks			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on rock=Destination
2	swim away	infinitive	seahorses not said here				then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, in seahorses the father carries the eggs in a pouch and gives birth

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 carries	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seahorses	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 seahorses	case
4	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carries	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carries	nsubj
7	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carries	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pouch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pouch	det
12	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carries	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gives	cc
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 carries	conj
15	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the father	the eggs		seahorses		in a pouch	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in seahorse=Location
2	give	present	the father not said here	birth					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only once in his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 once	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No, it is a female with a big tummy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 female	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 female	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 female	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 female	det
6	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 tummy	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tummy	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tummy	amod
10	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 female	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a female				with a big tummy	tree rules

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