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# Test 5 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

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«look this dolphin's got perfect round holes in it, like someone used a cookie cutter» What most likely made them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** someone, dolphin · **What happens:** look, get, use, make · **To what, where:** got perfect round holes, cookie cutter, holes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t5:1
# text = «look this dolphin's got perfect round holes in it, like someone used a cookie cutter» What most likely made them?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	amod	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	cookie	cookie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cutter	cutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | someone *not said here* | got perfect round holes |  |  |  | in dolphin | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Attribute |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | this dolphin |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **use** *in a quote* | past | someone | a cookie cutter |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent cutter=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | holes *= hole* |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A cookiecutter shark's spinning bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t5:o1:1
# text = A cookiecutter shark's spinning bite
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cookiecutter	cookiecutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** |  | a cookiecutter shark |  |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A boat propeller drawing perfect circles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t5:o2:1
# text = A boat propeller drawing perfect circles
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	propeller	propeller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund | a boat propeller *not said here* | perfect circles |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bad sunburn on the dolphin's thin skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t5:o3:1
# text = Bad sunburn on the dolphin's thin skin
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A great white shark taking a single bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t5:o4:1
# text = A great white shark taking a single bite
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | a great white shark *not said here* | a single bite |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme |

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