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Test 10 · ★ · The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep…

Cuttlefish seem to be colour-blind. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cuttlefish · What happens: seem, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 92 «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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: Cuttlefish seem to be colour-blind.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuttlefish	cuttlefish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 colour	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 colour	cop
5	colour	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seem	xcomp
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 blind	punct
7	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colour	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Cuttlefish						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Cuttlefish not said here					colour property	tree rules
3	be		Cuttlefish not said here						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.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They cannot change colour at all, so they just stay grey

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	4 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 change	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 stay	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stay	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 stay	advmod
12	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 change	parataxis
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	can	They	colour		all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
2	stay	present	they					grey property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They only turn black and white

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 turn	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 white	cc
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They					black property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

They still match their backgrounds very well

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 match	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 match	advmod
3	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 backgrounds	nmod:poss
5	backgrounds	background	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 match	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 match	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	present	They	their backgrounds			still	well property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=Patient

Option 4

They copy the colours of other fish

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 copy	nsubj
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colours	det
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fish	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	They	the colours of other fish					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme

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