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Test 9 · ★ · Animals in the sea and the river

An aquarium label says "Electric eel" but the guide says it isn't an eel. What's the lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aquarium label, guide, lesson · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: Electric eel, eel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: An aquarium label says "Electric eel" but the guide says it isn't an eel.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 label	det
2	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 label	compound
3	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 eel	punct
6	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eel	amod
7	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 eel	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guide	det
11	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eel	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eel	cop
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 eel	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eel	det
17	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a aquarium label	Electric eel					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eel=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	the guide						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	present	guide	a eel					tree rules

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 lesson?

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	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The guide must be lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guide	det
2	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	must · progressive	the guide						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Eels change species when electric

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 electric	advmod
5	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 change	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Eels	species					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Patient

Option 3

Labels are always more correct than tour guides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 correct	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 correct	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 correct	advmod
5	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 guides	case
7	tour	tour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guides	compound
8	guides	guide	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 correct	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Labels					than tour guides; correct property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Names can be wrong; the animal is a knifefish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrong	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 knifefish	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knifefish	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 knifefish	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knifefish	det
10	knifefish	knifefish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	Names					wrong property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the animal	a knifefish					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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