Test 9 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones

«shut up, fish don't talk» What is true about clownfish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: shut up, not talk, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 true	csubj
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 talk	advmod
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 true	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 clownfish	case
14	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 true	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	infinitive			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not talk in a quote	present · do-support	fish		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		about clownfish; true 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

They are completely silent, like all other fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 silent	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	cop
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 silent	advmod
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fish	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 fish	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fish	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 silent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					completely, silent property	tree rules

Option 2

They whistle like birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whistle	nsubj
2	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whistle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	present	They					like birds	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They make popping and clicking sounds to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	popping	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 make	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clicking	cc
5	clicking	click	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 popping	conj
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clicking	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 clicking	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	make	present	They			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	pop	gerund				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	click	gerund		sounds	each	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sound=Patient to each=Recipient

Option 4

They talk only to the sharks, to warn them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 sharks	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sharks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sharks	det
6	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 warn	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 warn	mark
9	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 warn	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	9 warn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	They					to the sharks	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to shark=Co-Agent
2	warn off speech: warn	to-infinitive	They not said here		sharks = shark				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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