Test 9 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

«a fish that lives 8 weeks?? that's shorter than summer holidays» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: live, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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	_	11 shorter	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shorter	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fish	acl:relcl
6	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 weeks	nummod
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lives	obl:unmarked
8	??	??	PUNCT	_	11 shorter	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 shorter	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shorter	cop
11	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 holidays	case
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holidays	compound
14	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shorter	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 shorter	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shorter	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 shorter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	a fish	week		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	a fish		than summer holidays; short property	tree rules
3	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, the coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goby	det
4	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goby	amod
5	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pygmy	compound
6	pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goby	compound
7	goby	goby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 eight	advmod
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 weeks	nummod
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lives	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the coral pygmy goby				week		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No fish lives for less than a year, not even the tiniest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 year	case
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 year	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 less	fixed
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tiniest	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tiniest	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 tiniest	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tiniest	det
13	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 lives	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	no fish				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is a mayfly, not a fish

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 mayfly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mayfly	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mayfly	det
4	mayfly	mayfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fish	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fish	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mayfly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mayfly and a fish					tree rules

Option 4

Fish live forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Fish					forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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