Test 3 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…

«they say a tiny fish swims up into you if you wee in the Amazon» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, tiny fish, you · What happens: say, swim up, wee, be · To what, where: Amazon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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	_	3 say	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swims	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swims	nsubj
7	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 swims	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 swims	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 wee	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 wee	nsubj
13	wee	wee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 Amazon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Amazon	det
16	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wee	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 wee	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	7 swims	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 swims	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	swim up in a quote	present	a tiny fish		into you	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into you=Destination
3	wee a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the Amazon		tree rules
4	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

It only happens to adults

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 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It					to adults	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is proved and happens daily

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 proved	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proved	aux:pass
3	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 happens	cc
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proved	conj
6	daily	daily	ADV	_	5 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive		It					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	happen	present						daily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The candiru story rests on very few unclear reports, and scientists doubt most of them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	candiru	candiru	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	compound
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rests	nsubj
4	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 reports	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 few	advmod
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reports	amod
8	unclear	unclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reports	amod
9	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rests	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doubt	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 doubt	cc
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 doubt	nsubj
13	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rests	conj
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 doubt	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present	the candiru story			few unclear reports			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on report=Location
2	doubt	present	scientists	most of reports					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The fish is as big as a dolphin and chases people who swim in the river every day

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 dolphin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dolphin	det
8	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chases	cc
10	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	conj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chases	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 swim	nsubj
13	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 people	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swim	obl
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swim	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fish				as a dolphin; big property	tree rules
2	chase	present	the fish not said here	people				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	swim	present	people		the river	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory

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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