Test 11 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore

«crabs walk sideways cos they're drunk» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crabs · What happens: walk, be

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	_	3 walk	punct
2	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nsubj
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 drunk	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drunk	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drunk	cop
8	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walk	advcl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 drunk	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drunk	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	present	crabs	sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	crabs = crab	drunk property	tree rules
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 · ✓ the right answer

Their leg joints bend best that way, though they can walk forwards slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 joints	nmod:poss
2	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joints	compound
3	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bend	nsubj
4	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 bend	advmod
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walk	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 walk	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 walk	aux
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bend	conj
13	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	12 walk	advmod
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present	Their leg joints	that way				well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	can	joints = joint					forwards, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They cannot walk forwards at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	can	They			all		forwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 3

They are copying the waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 copying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 copying	aux
3	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waves	det
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present · progressive	They	the waves					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They walk sideways only on sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 sand	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	They			sand		sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory

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