Test 2 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

«Nemo's dad lived in the sea, so I'll put a clownfish in my cold tap-water tank» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, I, cold tap water tank · What happens: live, put, be · To what, where: sea, clownfish, cold tap water tank

This is test 2 · ★★ 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 lived	punct
2	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Nemo	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 put	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lived	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 clownfish	det
15	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	22 tank	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tank	nmod:poss
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tank	amod
19	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tank	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 tap	punct
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tank	compound
22	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 tank	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 right	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 right	cop
26	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tank	acl:relcl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	past	Nemo's dad		the sea		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
2	put in a quote	future	I	a clownfish	my cold tap water tank		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clownfish=Theme in tank=Destination
3	is	present	my cold tap water tank			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 · ← Mova's choice

Any fish can live in any water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	can	any fish			any water			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Clownfish need warm sea water, so this would kill it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 kill	advmod
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 kill	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Clownfish	warm sea water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
2	kill	would	this	water					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Clownfish love cold tap water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Clownfish	cold tap water					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus

Option 4

Clownfish only live in films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 films	case
5	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Clownfish			films			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=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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