Test 11 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

«I tapped the glass and they all shot behind the plants» Why?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, they · What happens: tap, shoot · To what, where: glass, plants

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 203 «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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 tapped	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tapped	nsubj
3	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glass	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shot	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shot	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 shot	advmod
9	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tapped	conj
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 plants	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plants	det
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shot	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 tapped	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 tapped	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tapped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap in a quote	past	I	the glass					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Location
2	shoot in a quote	past	they			the plants			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind plant=Destination

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

Fish feel the movement and hide from danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 movement	det
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hide	cc
6	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feel	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Fish	the movement					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme
2	hide	present	Fish not said here			danger			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from danger=Beneficiary

Option 2

They were going to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	They						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are deaf so they hid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 deaf	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deaf	cop
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 hid	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hid	nsubj
6	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deaf	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					deaf property	tree rules
2	hide	past	they						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They wanted the plants to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plants	det
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	the plants					tree rules
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the plants not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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