Test 7 · The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays

Why would a flat body help a ray?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flat body · What happens: help · To what, where: ray

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 help	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 body	det
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 body	amod
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ray	det
8	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would	a flat body	a ray					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Beneficiary

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

It can swim faster than any shark in the whole ocean

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	3 swim	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 swim	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 shark	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 shark	det
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 ocean	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ocean	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ocean	amod
11	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	can	It			the whole ocean		than any shark; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Trajectory

Option 2

It can climb up rocks

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	3 climb	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	aux
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climb	compound:prt
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	can	It	rocks					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It can hide in sand and glide along the sea floor

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	3 hide	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	aux
3	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 sand	case
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 glide	cc
7	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	conj
8	along	along	ADP	_	11 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floor	compound
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	can	It			sand			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location
2	glide	present				the sea floor			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along floor=Trajectory

Option 4

It can float on the surface to sunbathe

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	3 float	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 surface	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 surface	det
6	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sunbathe	mark
8	sunbathe	sunbathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 float	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	can	It			the surface			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory
2	sunbathe	to-infinitive							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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