Test 10 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…
A girl in Sydney is too scared to swim because sharks might eat her. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, sharks · What happens: be, swim, eat · To what, where: girl
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Sydney is too scared to swim because sharks might eat her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scared | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 scared | advmod |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 swim | mark |
| 9 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 scared | xcomp |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 11 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 swim | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a girl in Sydney | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | to-infinitive | a girl in Sydney not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat | might | sharks | girl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Shark attacks are rare, because people are not their normal food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attacks | compound |
| 2 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rare | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rare | cop |
| 4 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 food | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 food | mark |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 food | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 food | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 food | advmod |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 food | nmod:poss |
| 11 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rare | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Shark attacks | rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | people | people's normal food | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Sharks attack almost every swimmer who goes out past the waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 attack | nsubj |
| 2 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 swimmer | advmod |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 swimmer | det |
| 5 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attack | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 goes | nsubj |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimmer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 goes | compound:prt |
| 9 | past | past | ADP | _ | 11 waves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waves | det |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | present | Sharks | every swimmer | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go out | present | every swimmer | past the waves | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Sharks only eat children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 eat | advmod |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Sharks | children | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
Option 4
Sharks live in every swimming pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pool | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pool | det |
| 5 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pool | compound |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Sharks | every swimming pool | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location |
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