Test 9 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore

«that coral's just pretty rocks innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rocks innit · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	8 innit	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 coral	det
3	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rocks	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 coral	case
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 pretty	advmod
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rocks	amod
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 innit	compound
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 right	nsubj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 innit	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	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	rocks innit					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, it is coloured stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 stone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stone	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stone	cop
5	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	coloured stone					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Coral is built by living animals, the polyps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 animals	case
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 polyps	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 polyps	det
9	polyps	polyp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 animals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive	living animals and the polyps	Coral					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

Option 3

It is a kind of seaweed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 seaweed	case
6	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of seaweed	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it is rock from old volcanoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 rock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rock	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rock	cop
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 volcanoes	case
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 volcanoes	amod
8	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	rock		old volcanoes			tree rules

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