Test 1 · ★★ · Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth

«lol goldfish forget in 3 sec, so every lap is a new world» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: goldfish, lap · What happens: forget, be · To what, where: 3 sec, new world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 204 «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» 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	_	4 forget	punct
2	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 forget	discourse
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	nsubj
4	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sec	case
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 sec	nummod
7	sec	sec	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 world	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	15 world	advmod
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 lap	det
11	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 world	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 world	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 world	det
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forget	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present	goldfish		3 sec		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	every lap	a new world			tree rules
3	is	present				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 · ✓ the right answer

It is a myth; goldfish remember for months

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	4 myth	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 remember	punct
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remember	nsubj
7	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 months	case
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a myth					tree rules
2	remember	present	goldfish				month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, it is a proven fact that scientists checked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 fact	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fact	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fact	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fact	det
6	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fact	amod
7	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 checked	mark
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 checked	nsubj
10	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fact	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	prove	participle			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a proven fact	tree rules
3	check	past	scientists		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They remember only their name and nothing else

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 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 name	advmod
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 name	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	They	their name					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	name		their = they						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They forget in one second

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 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 second	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 second	nummod
5	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	They				second		tree rules

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