Test 8 · ★ · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

Why do most sharks leave swimmers alone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: most sharks · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: swimmers

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	advcl
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sharks	amod
4	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nsubj
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	most sharks not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	most sharks	swimmers				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

People are not their normal food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 food	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 food	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 food	advmod
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	People	People's normal food					tree rules

Option 2

Sharks can never see people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Sharks	people					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 3

Sharks only live in deep tanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tanks	case
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tanks	amod
6	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Sharks			deep tanks			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location

Option 4

Sharks are afraid of all colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 colours	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 colours	det
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sharks					of all colours; afraid property	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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