Test 1 · ★ · Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?

«my goldfish forgets me every 3 seconds so it doesn't matter if i forget to feed it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: goldfish, it, i · What happens: forget, not matter, not feed, be · To what, where: me, goldfish

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 152 «Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?» 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	_	4 forgets	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 goldfish	nmod:poss
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgets	nsubj
4	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forgets	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 seconds	det
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 seconds	nummod
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forgets	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 matter	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 matter	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 matter	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 matter	advmod
13	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forgets	advcl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 forget	mark
15	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 forget	nsubj
16	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 matter	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 feed	mark
18	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forget	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 feed	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 feed	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feed	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 forgets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present	my goldfish	me	second		tree rules
2	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	it				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	forget a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	i				tree rules
4	not feed in a quote	to-infinitive	i not said here	goldfish			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	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

Right, goldfish feed on the bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 feed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	nsubj
4	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bowl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	goldfish					on the bowl	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on bowl=Patient

Option 2

Right, goldfish only need to eat about once a month, so a week is nothing

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	xcomp
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 once	advmod
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 eat	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 month	det
11	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 once	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 nothing	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 week	det
15	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nothing	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 nothing	cop
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 need	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	goldfish			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	goldfish not said here		once property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	a week	nothing		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wrong twice: it can remember for months, and it still needs regular food

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Wrong	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remember	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wrong	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 months	case
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 remember	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 needs	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 needs	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needs	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 needs	advmod
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	parataxis
14	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 food	amod
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	can	it				month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	need	present	it	regular food			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 4

Right, it won't notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 notice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 notice	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 notice	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 notice	advmod
6	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	future	it						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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