Test 18 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

my mate says sharks hunt people at every beach and like 1000 kids get eaten a year, true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, sharks · What happens: say, hunt, eat · To what, where: people, beach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunt	nsubj
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunt	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 beach	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunt	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eaten	cc
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 kids	case
12	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 kids	nummod
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eaten	obl
14	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux:pass
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hunt	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaten	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 true	punct
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eaten	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	present	sharks	people	every beach			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme at beach=Location
3	eat	present · passive	sharks not said here			year	like 1000 kids	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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

True, but only at beaches in the summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beaches	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beaches	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 beaches	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 beaches	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 beaches	case
6	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 summer	det
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beaches	nmod

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

Option 2

True, sharks like eating people much more than eating fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sharks	acl
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eating	obj
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 eating	advmod
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	True sharks not said here	people					tree rules
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Hugely exaggerated; sharks rarely attack people at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hugely	hugely	ADV	_	2 exaggerated	advmod
2	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sharks	amod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 exaggerated	punct
4	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attack	nsubj
5	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	6 attack	advmod
6	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attack	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 attack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	participle						hugely property	tree rules
2	attack	present	exaggerated sharks	people		all		rarely property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4

True, so nobody should ever swim in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swim	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 swim	advmod
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 swim	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 swim	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 swim	advmod
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	should	nobody			the sea	ever		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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