Test 7 · ★ · Animals in the sea and the river

A film shows a cow lowered into a river and eaten by piranhas in ten seconds. What's really true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film · What happens: show, lower, eat, be · To what, where: cow, river

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 11 «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 film shows a cow lowered into a river and eaten by piranhas in ten seconds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 film	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cow	acl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lowered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eaten	cc
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lowered	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 piranhas	case
13	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eaten	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 seconds	case
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 seconds	nummod
16	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eaten	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a film		a cow				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient
2	lower	participle		a cow not said here		a river			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into river=Destination
3	eat	participle					second	by piranhas	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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's really true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 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

That kind of scene is a legend from a staged show; real piranhas rarely attack

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legend	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 scene	case
4	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 legend	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 legend	det
7	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 show	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 show	det
10	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 show	amod
11	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legend	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 piranhas	punct
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 piranhas	amod
14	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attack	nsubj
15	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	16 attack	advmod
16	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 legend	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that kind of scene	a legend	a staged show		tree rules
2	stage	participle					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	attack	present	real piranhas			rarely property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It happens every day in rivers

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 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl:unmarked
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It			rivers	day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in river=Location

Option 3

Piranhas live in British rivers too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piranhas	piranha	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	_	5 rivers	case
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rivers	amod
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl
6	too	too	ADV	_	2 live	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Piranhas only eat cows, never fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piranhas	piranha	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	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fish	advmod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Piranhas	cows				fish obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

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