Test 12 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

«why do they bother with real plants, plastic ones are easier» What do living plants add?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, plastic ones · What happens: bother, be, live, add · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	_	5 bother	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bother	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bother	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bother	nsubj
5	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 add	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 plants	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bother	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
10	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	compound
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 easier	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 easier	cop
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bother	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bother	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 add	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 living	aux
17	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 plants	amod
18	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 add	nsubj
19	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	bother in a quote	present · do-support	they	with real plants	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	plastic ones	easy property	tree rules
3	live	present · do-support			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	add speech: assert	infinitive			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

They eat the fish

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 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	the fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They use up some waste, add oxygen and give hiding places

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 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 use	compound:prt
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 waste	det
5	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 add	punct
7	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 use	parataxis
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 add	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 give	cc
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	conj
11	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 give	xcomp
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use up	present	They	some waste	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Patient
2	add speech: assert	infinitive		oxygen	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient
3	give	present	They not said here		tree rules
4	hide	gerund	They not said here	places	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient

Option 3

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

They make the water salty, just like the sea that fish come from

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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 sea	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 come	nsubj
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sea	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	13 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the water				salty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product
2	come	present	the sea						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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