Test 9 · ★ · The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep…
A cartoon lobster is bright red, swimming in the sea. What would you fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon lobster, you · What happens: be, swim, fix · To what, where: sea
This is test 9 · ★ 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: A cartoon lobster is bright red, swimming in the sea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lobster | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lobster | compound |
| 3 | lobster | lobster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 red | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 red | cop |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 red | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swimming | punct |
| 8 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 red | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swimming | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 red | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a cartoon lobster | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | a cartoon lobster not said here | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |
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 would you fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 fix | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fix | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | nsubj |
| 4 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | would | you | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Live lobsters are greenish brown; red is the cooked colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lobsters | amod |
| 2 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brown | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brown | cop |
| 4 | greenish | greenish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brown | amod |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 colour | punct |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 colour | amod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 colour | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 colour | det |
| 10 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 colour | amod |
| 11 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Live lobsters | brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the red cooked colour | tree rules |
Option 2
Lobsters are always bright blue while they are in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 blue | advmod |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blue | amod |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 sea | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sea | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sea | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lobsters | always, blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Lobsters = lobster | the sea | tree rules |
Option 3
Lobsters are white until they grow up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 white | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 white | cop |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 grow | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 white | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grow | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lobsters | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow up | present | Lobsters = lobster | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nothing, lobsters are red alive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 lobsters | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 alive | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 alive | cop |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 alive | amod |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing lobsters | alive property | tree rules |
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