Test 7 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…
In a cartoon two fish chat and breathe bubbles of air out of their mouths. How do real fish breathe?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: two fish, real fish · What happens: chat, breathe · To what, where: cartoon, bubbles, mouths
This is test 7 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon two fish chat and breathe bubbles of air out of their mouths.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chat | obl |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fish | nummod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chat | nsubj |
| 6 | chat | chat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 breathe | cc |
| 8 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chat | conj |
| 9 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 breathe | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bubbles | nmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 mouths | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mouths | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 breathe | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | present | two fish | a cartoon | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | breathe | present | two fish not said here | bubbles of air | fish's mouths | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: How do real fish breathe?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 real | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | aux |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 breathe | nsubj |
| 5 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 breathe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | real fish | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
They breathe through their tails
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 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 tails | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tails | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breathe | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | They | their tails | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
They breathe the little air bubbles they make with their mouths
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 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bubbles | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bubbles | amod |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bubbles | compound |
| 6 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breathe | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bubbles | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 mouths | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | They | the little air bubbles | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | bubbles = bubble | the little air bubbles not said here | with bubbles's mouths | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bubble=Product |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They take oxygen out of the water through their gills
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 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 gills | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gills | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | They | oxygen | the water | through their gills | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme out water=Initial_Location |
Option 4
They hold their breath all day
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 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 breath | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | They | their breath | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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