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Test 8 · ★ · Animals in the sea and the river

Megan says, "Bet you don't believe seahorse dads give birth!" What's the wise reaction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Megan, you, seahorse dads, wise reaction · What happens: say, not believe, give, be · To what, where: birth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Megan says, "Bet you don't believe seahorse dads give birth!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct
5	Bet	bet	INTJ	_	9 believe	discourse
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 believe	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 believe	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 believe	advmod
9	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
10	seahorse	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dads	compound
11	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 believe	ccomp
13	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Megan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not believe in a quote	present · do-support	you						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	give in a quote	present	seahorse dads	birth					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=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's the wise reaction?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reaction	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reaction	amod
5	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise reaction						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say only mammal dads can do that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 mammal	advmod
3	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dads	compound
4	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	can	mammal dads	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 2

Laugh it off without ever checking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Laugh	compound:prt
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 checking	mark
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 checking	advmod
6	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Laugh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	check	gerund	you not said here				ever		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Check it, and admit it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Check	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 admit	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 admit	cc
5	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Check	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 admit	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	admit speech: other	present	you not said here						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it					true property	tree rules

Option 4

Say all fish dads do that, so it's nothing special

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dads	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dads	compound
4	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 nothing	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nothing	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nothing	cop
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	parataxis
12	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present	all fish dads	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	is a	present	it	nothing					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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