Test 8 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

«that ugly sucker fish is licking the glass, gross» What is it doing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sucker fish, fish · What happens: lick, do · To what, where: glass

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	7 licking	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fish	det
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sucker	amod
4	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 licking	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 licking	aux
7	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 glass	det
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 licking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gross	punct
11	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 licking	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 gross	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 doing	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 doing	aux
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 doing	nsubj
16	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 licking	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 licking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick in a quote	present · progressive	that sucker fish	the glass					tree rules
2	do	present · progressive	fish						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Licking the glass for salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 glass	det
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Licking	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 salt	case
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Licking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	gerund		the glass				for salt	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source

Option 2

Talking to the cat outside the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 cat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talking	obl
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	7 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						to the cat; outside the glass	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cat=Co-Agent

Option 3

Trying to get out of the tank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 get	mark
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 tank	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tank	det
7	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive		the tank					tree rules

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

Cleaning off algae to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Cleaning	compound:prt
3	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cleaning	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 algae	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean off	gerund		algae					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent alga=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive		algae not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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