Test 8 · Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, m…
In a cartoon a pufferfish blows up with air like a balloon and floats away. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pufferfish · What happens: blow up, float away, be · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 8 of lesson 173 «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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: In a cartoon a pufferfish blows up with air like a balloon and floats away.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blows | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pufferfish | det |
| 5 | pufferfish | pufferfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blows | nsubj |
| 6 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 blows | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blows | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 balloon | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 balloon | det |
| 12 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blows | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 floats | cc |
| 14 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blows | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 floats | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow up | present | a pufferfish | a cartoon | with air; like a balloon | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with air=Theme | |||
| 2 | float away | present | a pufferfish not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 is real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It explodes after puffing
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 explodes | nsubj |
| 2 | explodes | explode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 puffing | mark |
| 4 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 explodes | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explode | present | It | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | puff | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
Option 2
It always fills up with air and floats away into the sky
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 fills | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 fills | advmod |
| 3 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 fills | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fills | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 floats | cc |
| 8 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fills | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 floats | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floats | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill up | present | It | with air; always property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with air=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | float away | present | the sky | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sky=Destination |
Option 3
It cannot puff up at all
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 puff | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 puff | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 puff | advmod |
| 4 | puff | puff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 puff | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 puff | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not puff up | can | It | all | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It swallows water to swell up, and it stays in the water
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 swallows | nsubj |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swallows | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 swell | mark |
| 5 | swell | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 swallows | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 swell | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stays | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stays | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stays | nsubj |
| 10 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swallows | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | It | water | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swell up | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | stay | present | water | the water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
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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