Test 5 · ★★ · Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and…

«my goldfish swims to the corner every morning when i open the curtains, coincidence?» What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goldfish, i · What happens: swim, open, be · To what, where: corner, curtains

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 191 «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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: «my goldfish swims to the corner every morning when i open the curtains, coincidence?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 swims	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 goldfish	nmod:poss
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swims	nsubj
4	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swims	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swims	obl:unmarked
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 open	advmod
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 open	nsubj
12	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swims	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 curtains	det
14	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 open	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 coincidence	punct
16	coincidence	coincidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 open	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 swims	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 swims	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim in a quote	present	my goldfish			the corner	morning		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to corner=Destination
2	open in a quote	present	i	the curtains				coincidence obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location curtain=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 most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It is trying to escape the tank, and the corner is where the glass is thinnest

The tree, 16 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 escape	mark
5	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tank	det
7	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 escape	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 where	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 where	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 where	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 where	cop
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 trying	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glass	det
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thinnest	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thinnest	cop
17	thinnest	thin	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 where	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive		the tank		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tank=Initial_Location
3	is	present	the corner		where property	tree rules
4	is	present	the glass		thin property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It has learned that food comes then, because goldfish remember for months

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 learned	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	aux
3	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 comes	mark
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	ccomp
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 comes	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remember	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 remember	mark
10	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 remember	nsubj
11	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 months	case
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	learn	present · perfect	It		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	food	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remember	present	goldfish	month	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Coincidence, everybody knows goldfish forget everything in three seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coincidence	coincidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everybody	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Coincidence	punct
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forget	nsubj
6	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 knows	ccomp
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 forget	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 seconds	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 seconds	nummod
10	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	everybody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	forget	present	goldfish	everything			second		tree rules

Option 4

It is scared of the light

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 scared	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of the light; scared property	tree rules

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