Test 4 · The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays
After watching Jaws, Ben thinks the sea is full of sharks hunting swimmers. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, sea, sharks, truth · What happens: watch, think, be, hunt · To what, where: Jaws, swimmers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: After watching Jaws, Ben thinks the sea is full of sharks hunting swimmers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 watching | mark |
| 2 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thinks | advcl |
| 3 | Jaws | Jaws | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watching | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 watching | punct |
| 5 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thinks | nsubj |
| 6 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thinks | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sharks | case |
| 12 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sharks | acl |
| 14 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hunting | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | Ben not said here | Jaws | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaws=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | Ben | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the sea | of sharks; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | sharks not said here | swimmers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme |
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 is the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 ten | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 fewer | fixed |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 ten | advmod |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kill | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Sharks | ten people | year | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
Option 2
Sharks follow boats to find people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 follow | advcl |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Sharks | boats | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Sharks not said here | people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
Option 3
Every beach has a great white nearby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 beach | det |
| 2 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 white | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 white | amod |
| 6 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 3 has | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every beach | a great white | nearby property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Patient |
Option 4
Sharks kill thousands of swimmers every single year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 swimmers | case |
| 5 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thousands | nmod |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kill | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Sharks | thousands of swimmers | year | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |
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