Test 4 · ★ · The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep…

my nan says jellyfish are just fish with no bones, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, jellyfish · What happens: say, be, innit · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fish	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fish	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 fish	advmod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bones	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bones	det
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fish	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	jellyfish	fish	with no bones	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive				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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, they are fish that lost their bones long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fish	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	acl:relcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod:poss
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lost	obj
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 ago	advmod
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	fish					tree rules
2	lose	past	fish	fish's bones				ago property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, but only the big ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

No, they are a kind of seaweed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 seaweed	case
8	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a kind				of seaweed	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they are not fish at all but cousins of corals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fish	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fish	advmod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fish	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 cousins	cc
10	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fish	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 corals	case
12	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cousins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	they	fish but cousins of corals		all			tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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