Test 10 · The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays
Stroke a shark from nose to tail and then from tail to nose. What do you feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: stroke, feel · To what, where: shark, nose
This is test 10 of lesson 91 «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» 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
Sentence 1: Stroke a shark from nose to tail and then from tail to nose.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stroke | stroke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shark | det |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stroke | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 nose | case |
| 5 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stroke | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nose | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tail | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 tail | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tail | case |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nose | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 nose | case |
| 13 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tail | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stroke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | imperative | you not said here | a shark | nose to tail and tail to nose | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Experiencer |
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.
Sentence 2: What do you feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 feel | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Slimy both ways like a frog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slimy | slimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ways | amod |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ways | det |
| 3 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 frog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 frog | det |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ways | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Smooth both ways, just like stroking a wet dolphin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smooth | smooth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ways | det |
| 3 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Smooth | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stroking | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 stroking | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 stroking | mark |
| 7 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Smooth | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dolphin | det |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dolphin | amod |
| 10 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stroking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smooth | imperative | you not said here | both ways | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stroke | gerund | you not said here | a wet dolphin | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dolphin=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Smooth one way and rough like sandpaper the other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 way | nummod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Smooth | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rough | cc |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Smooth | conj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sandpaper | case |
| 7 | sandpaper | sandpaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rough | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Smooth | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Spiky both ways like a hedgehog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spiky | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ways | amod |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ways | det |
| 3 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 hedgehog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hedgehog | det |
| 6 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ways | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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