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

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