Test 6 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones

«Nemo swims halfway across the ocean, clownfish do that all the time» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nemo, clownfish · What happens: swim, do, be · To what, where: ocean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 swims	punct
2	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 swims	nsubj
3	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	3 swims	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 ocean	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ocean	det
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swims	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
9	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 time	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl:unmarked
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swims	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swims	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim in a quote	present	Nemo	the ocean		halfway property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across ocean=Trajectory
2	do in a quote	present	clownfish		time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	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

Yes, they migrate with whales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 migrate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 migrate	nsubj
4	migrate	migrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 whales	case
6	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 migrate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	migrate	present	they					with whales	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Real clownfish stay within a few metres of their anemone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clownfish	amod
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 metres	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 metres	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metres	amod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 anemone	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 anemone	nmod:poss
10	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 metres	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Real clownfish					within a few metres of clownfish's anemone	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, clownfish cannot swim at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 swim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swim	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 swim	advmod
6	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	can	clownfish			all			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they swim thousands of kilometres across the ocean every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 swim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swim	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swim	nsubj
4	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 kilometres	case
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 ocean	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ocean	det
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	they	thousands of kilometres		the ocean	year		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory

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