Test 8 · ★★ · Seasons and tides

Why might a fisherman want to know when the full Moon is?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fisherman, full Moon · What happens: want, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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	5 want	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 know	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Moon	amod
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 when	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 when	cop
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	might	a fisherman		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	a fisherman not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	the full Moon	when property	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.

The options

Option 1

Boats float higher and better at full Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 better	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 better	cc
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 float	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Moon	amod
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	Boats			full Moon		well property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moon=Trajectory

Option 2

Fish only ever bite when the Moon is full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 bite	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 full	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 full	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 full	cop
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	infinitive	Fish				ever		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the Moon					full property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tides are biggest at full and new Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 biggest	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 biggest	cop
3	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Moon	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 new	cc
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 full	conj
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 biggest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tides			full Moon		big property	tree rules

Option 4

The full Moon warms up the sea for the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moon	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Moon	amod
3	Moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warms	nsubj
4	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 warms	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warms	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 fish	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warms	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	present	the full Moon	the sea				for the fish	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

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