Test 5 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

«put the big oscar in with the tiny neons, they'll be mates» What is likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, neons, mates · What happens: put, be · To what, where: big oscar, mates

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	_	2 put	punct
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oscar	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oscar	amod
5	oscar	oscar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	in	in	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 neons	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 neons	det
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 neons	amod
10	neons	neon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mates	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mates	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 mates	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 mates	cop
15	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 neons	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 mates	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 likely	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 likely	cop
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mates	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the big oscar	with the tiny neons and mates	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oscar=Goal
2	is a in a quote	future	neons = neon	mates		tree rules
3	is	present	mates		likely 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

They will all be friends

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	5 friends	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 friends	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 friends	cop
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	They	friends				all property	tree rules

Option 2

The little ones will gang up together and eat the oscar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gang	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gang	aux
5	gang	gang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gang	compound:prt
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 gang	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eat	cc
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gang	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oscar	det
11	oscar	oscar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gang up	future	the little ones					together property	tree rules
2	eat	present	the little ones not said here	the oscar					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oscar=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The big fish may eat the little ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

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

Option 4

They will swap colours

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 swap	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swap	aux
3	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	future	They	colours					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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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