Test 7 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

Why might some freshwater fish survive in parts of the Baltic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: freshwater fish · What happens: survive · To what, where: parts

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» of the geography 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	6 survive	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 survive	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 fish	det
4	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 survive	nsubj
6	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 parts	case
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 survive	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Baltic	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Baltic	det
11	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 parts	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	might	some freshwater fish			parts of the Baltic			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location

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

It has no salt at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 salt	det
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 salt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no salt		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient

Option 2

The Baltic is really a lake cut off from the North Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Baltic	det
2	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lake	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lake	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 lake	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lake	acl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 Sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sea	det
11	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sea	compound
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Baltic	a lake					tree rules
2	cut off	participle		a lake not said here		the North Sea			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from sea=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its water is only a little salty, especially in the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 water	nmod:poss
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 salty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 salty	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 salty	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 salty	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 salty	amod
7	salty	salty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 north	punct
9	especially	especially	ADV	_	12 north	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 north	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 north	det
12	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 salty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Its water	a little salty and the north					tree rules

Option 4

Fish are carried in by ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 ships	case
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry in	present · passive		Fish				by ships	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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