Test 4 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals
A friend says swimming at the beach is crazy because sharks hunt people. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, swimming, sharks · What happens: say, swim, be, hunt · To what, where: beach, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A friend says swimming at the beach is crazy because sharks hunt people.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 crazy | csubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swimming | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crazy | cop |
| 9 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 hunt | mark |
| 11 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hunt | nsubj |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crazy | advcl |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hunt | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | the beach | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at beach=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | is | present | swimming | crazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt | present | sharks | people | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.
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 · ← Mova's choice
Sharks attack anyone who splashes
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 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 attack | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 splashes | nsubj |
| 5 | splashes | splash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anyone | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | present | Sharks | anyone | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | splash | present | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Shark attacks are rare, people are not their 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 | _ | 10 food | punct |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 food | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 food | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 food | advmod |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 food | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 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 food | tree rules |
Option 3
Sharks hunt people near every beach in the world
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | nsubj |
| 2 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | obj |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunt | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beach | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | Sharks | people | every beach in the world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme near beach=Location |
Option 4
Sharks only attack children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attack | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 attack | advmod |
| 3 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attack | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | present | Sharks | children | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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