Test 8 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones

«why'd anyone care if people take a few clownfish off a reef for tanks» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, tanks · What happens: take, be · To what, where: few clownfish, reef

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	5 care	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 care	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 care	compound
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 take	mark
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	nsubj
8	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 clownfish	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clownfish	amod
11	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 reef	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 reef	det
14	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 tanks	case
16	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reef	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 tanks	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tanks	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	present	people	a few clownfish		a reef for tanks			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent clownfish=Theme off reef=Initial_Location
2	is	present	tanks					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

Taking many from one place leaves too few to lay eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 leaves	csubj
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Taking	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 place	nummod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
6	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 few	advmod
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaves	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lay	mark
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 few	xcomp
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	gerund		many	one place	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent many=Theme from place=Initial_Location
2	leave	present	Taking	few		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme
3	lay	to-infinitive	few not said here	eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 2

Clownfish grow back from coral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 coral	case
5	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Clownfish					from coral	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from coral=Patient

Option 3

Clownfish are happier in tanks, as there are no sharks there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happier	cop
3	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 tanks	case
5	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happier	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 are	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 are	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happier	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 sharks	det
11	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	nsubj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 are	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Clownfish			tanks		happy property	tree rules
2	does	present	no sharks			there; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The reef has endless clownfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reef	det
2	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clownfish	amod
5	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the reef	endless clownfish					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownfish=Patient

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