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Test 8 · ★ · Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?

A goldfish darts away when the net comes in. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goldfish, net, that · What happens: dart away, come in, show

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A goldfish darts away when the net comes in.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goldfish	det
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 darts	nsubj
3	darts	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 darts	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 net	det
7	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 darts	advcl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 comes	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 darts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dart away	present	a goldfish					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in	present	the net						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 does that show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It wants to play chase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive		chase					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme

Option 2

It forgot what a net is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 forgot	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 net	det
5	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	It						tree rules
2	is a	present	a net						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It senses the net and avoids something that could hurt or scare it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 senses	nsubj
2	senses	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 net	det
4	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 senses	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 avoids	cc
6	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 senses	conj
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 avoids	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hurt	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hurt	aux
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 something	acl:relcl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 scare	cc
12	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hurt	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	present	It	the net					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer net=Stimulus
2	avoid	present		something					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent something=Location
3	hurt	could							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	scare	infinitive		net					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 4

It is trying to swim into the net because it wants to be taken out of the tank

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 swim	mark
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 net	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 net	det
8	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 wants	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	nsubj
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 taken	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 taken	aux:pass
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wants	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 tank	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tank	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tank	det
18	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive				the net			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into net=Destination
3	want	present	net						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take out not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	net not said here	the tank					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: tank=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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