Test 2 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore
«patrick star's dumb cos he's a starfish lol» Which is the true part?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dumb cos, starfish · What happens: be · To what, where: starfish, true part
This is test 2 · ★★ 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 starfish | punct |
| 2 | patrick | patrick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cos | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 star | case |
| 5 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cos | amod |
| 6 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 starfish | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 starfish | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 starfish | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 starfish | det |
| 10 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nsubj |
| 11 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 10 starfish | discourse |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 starfish | punct |
| 13 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 part | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 part | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 part | amod |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | patrick star's dumb cos | a starfish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a starfish | the true part | 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
Starfish have a brain in each arm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brain | det |
| 4 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 arm | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 arm | det |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Starfish | a brain | each arm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A real starfish has no brain at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 starfish | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 starfish | amod |
| 3 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 brain | det |
| 6 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 brain | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a real starfish | no brain | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
Option 3
Starfish are fish, so they have fish brains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fish | cop |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 have | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fish | advcl |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brains | compound |
| 9 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Starfish | fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Starfish | fish brains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
Option 4
Starfish have huge brains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brains | amod |
| 4 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Starfish | huge brains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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