Test 5 · The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays

In Finding Nemo, Bruce the great white shark is in a club where sharks promise not to eat fish. What is true of real great whites?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: great white shark, sharks · What happens: be, promise, not eat · To what, where: club, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: In Finding Nemo, Bruce the great white shark is in a club where sharks promise not to eat fish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Finding	case
2	Finding	Finding	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 club	obl
3	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Finding	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Bruce	punct
5	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Finding	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shark	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shark	amod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shark	amod
9	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 club	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 club	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 club	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 club	det
13	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 promise	advmod
15	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 promise	nsubj
16	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 club	acl:relcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 eat	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 promise	ccomp
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 club	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the great white shark		a club	in Finding and Bruce	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present	sharks				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		fish			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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 true of real great whites?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 whites	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whites	amod
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whites	amod
7	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of real great whites; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They never eat fish at all, only tiny drifting plankton and krill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drifting	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 drifting	advmod
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 drifting	amod
10	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 eat	advcl
11	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drifting	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 krill	cc
13	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plankton	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present	They	fish		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	drift	gerund	They not said here	plankton and krill					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Agent

Option 2

They live in small groups in one reef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 groups	case
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 groups	amod
5	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 reef	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 reef	nummod
8	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They			small groups		in one reef	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They do eat fish and seals, and they roam huge distances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 seals	cc
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fish	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roam	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 roam	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 roam	nsubj
10	roam	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 distances	amod
12	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roam	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · do-support	They	fish and seals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	roam	present	fish	huge distances					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory

Option 4

They eat only seaweed and shellfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 seaweed	advmod
4	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shellfish	cc
6	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seaweed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	seaweed and shellfish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient

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