Test 3 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

«the fish never shuts its eyes, is it a zombie lol» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish, it · What happens: not shut, be · To what, where: eyes, zombie, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 shuts	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shuts	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 shuts	advmod
5	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shuts	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 zombie	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 zombie	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 zombie	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 zombie	det
12	zombie	zombie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shuts	obl
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	12 zombie	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 zombie	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 truth	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 truth	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 truth	det
18	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shuts	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shuts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not shut in a quote	present	the fish	its eyes	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	a zombie	tree rules
3	is a	present		the truth	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

It is watching you all night because it does not trust you

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 watching	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watching	aux
3	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 watching	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	obl:unmarked
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 trust	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trust	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trust	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 trust	advmod
11	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 watching	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present · progressive	It	you			night		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not trust	present · do-support	it	you					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

It never sleeps

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 sleeps	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 sleeps	advmod
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	present	It						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is ill

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 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fish have no eyelids, so they sleep with eyes open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 eyelids	det
4	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sleep	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 sleep	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sleep	nsubj
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sleep	obl
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sleep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Fish	no eyelids					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
2	sleep	present	Fish					with eyes	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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