Test 4 · What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in

«my nan says goldfish forget everything in 3 seconds so they never get bored» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, goldfish · What happens: say, forget, not get, be · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 1 «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forget	nsubj
6	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 forget	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 seconds	case
9	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 seconds	nummod
10	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forget	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	advcl
15	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 bored	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bored	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget in a quote	present	goldfish	everything	second		tree rules
3	not get in a quote	present	goldfish			bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present				right 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wrong: goldfish remember feeding times and tricks for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goldfish	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 times	compound
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tricks	cc
8	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 times	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Wrong goldfish				month; time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Wrong: they remember for exactly three minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remember	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 three	advmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Wrong				minute		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Right: three seconds is all they remember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	8 remember	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 seconds	nummod
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 remember	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 remember	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 remember	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remember	nsubj
8	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	three seconds					all, remember, right property	tree rules

Option 4

Right, and that is why they do not need a filter or anything to do

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	10 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 why	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 why	cc
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 why	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 why	cop
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 need	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 need	advmod
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 filter	det
12	filter	filter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 anything	cc
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 filter	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		why property	tree rules
2	not need	present · do-support	they	a filter		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	a filter not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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