Test 10 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones

Why does a clownfish touch its anemone carefully at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: clownfish · What happens: touch · To what, where: anemone

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 132 «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 touch	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clownfish	det
4	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touch	nsubj
5	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 anemone	nmod:poss
7	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	obj
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 touch	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 touch	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 touch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present · do-support	a clownfish	its anemone				carefully property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anemone=Co-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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its mucus changes until the anemone no longer stings it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mucus	nmod:poss
2	mucus	mucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	nsubj
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 stings	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 anemone	det
6	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stings	nsubj
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 stings	advmod
9	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 changes	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Its mucus						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sting	present	the anemone	mucus				long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 2

It is checking whether the anemone is ripe enough to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 checking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 checking	aux
3	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 ripe	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 anemone	det
6	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ripe	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ripe	cop
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 checking	ccomp
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 ripe	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ripe	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	check	present · progressive	It		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the anemone	enough, ripe property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	the anemone not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is asking another fish's permission

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asking	aux
3	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 permission	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 fish	case
7	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	It	another fish's permission					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient
2	permit		another fish						nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It is waking the anemone up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waking	aux
3	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 anemone	det
5	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waking	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 waking	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present · progressive	It	the anemone					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent anemone=Patient

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