Test 4 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones
In SpongeBob, fish live in houses and drive boats. What do real clownfish actually live in?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish, real clownfish · What happens: live, drive, be, live in · To what, where: SpongeBob, boats
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: In SpongeBob, fish live in houses and drive boats.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 SpongeBob | case |
| 2 | SpongeBob | SpongeBob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 SpongeBob | punct |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 houses | case |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drive | cc |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | conj |
| 10 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drive | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | fish | SpongeBob | in houses | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spongebob=Location | |||
| 2 | drive | present | fish not said here | boats | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory |
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 do real clownfish actually live in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clownfish | amod |
| 4 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clownfish | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 live | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | real clownfish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live in | present | real clownfish not said here | actually property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Holes dug in the sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Holes | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sand | det |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dug | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | participle | Holes not said here | the sand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The stinging tentacles of a sea anemone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tentacles | det |
| 2 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tentacles | amod |
| 3 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anemone | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 anemone | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anemone | compound |
| 7 | anemone | anemone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tentacles | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Hollow pineapples on the sandy sea floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pineapples | amod |
| 2 | pineapples | pineapple | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 5 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floor | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floor | compound |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pineapples | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sunken ships only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ships | amod |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 ships | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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