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Test 9 · ★ · Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?

A goldfish in a science video swims through a maze faster each day. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: goldfish, that · What happens: swim, show · To what, where: maze

This is test 9 · ★ 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 in a science video swims through a maze faster each day.

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	7 swims	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 video	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 video	det
5	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 video	compound
6	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goldfish	nmod
7	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 maze	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 maze	det
10	maze	maze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swims	obl
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 swims	advmod
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swims	obl:unmarked
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swims	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	a goldfish in a science video			a maze	day	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through maze=Trajectory

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

Fish swim faster when tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swim	nsubj
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 swim	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swim	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	Fish					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It remembers the way from earlier tries

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 remembers	nsubj
2	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembers	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 tries	case
6	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 tries	amod
7	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remembers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	It	the way		earlier tries			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 3

The maze gets shorter each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maze	det
2	maze	maze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gets	xcomp
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the maze				day	short property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It is just lucky every day

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	4 lucky	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lucky	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lucky	advmod
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lucky	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				day	lucky property	tree rules

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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