Test 4 · ★★ · Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth

«my nan's had a goldfish for 22 years, she's lying surely» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan · What happens: have, lie, be · To what, where: goldfish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	_	5 had	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 nan	case
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 goldfish	det
7	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lying	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lying	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lying	aux
14	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 had	conj
15	surely	surely	ADV	_	14 lying	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 lying	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	14 lying	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	participle	my nan	a goldfish	year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Patient
2	lie in a quote	present · progressive	nan			surely property	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 possible, goldfish can live over twenty years

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 possible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 possible	cop
3	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 live	aux
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 possible	parataxis
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					possible property	tree rules
2	live	can	goldfish				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only koi live that long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 koi	advmod
2	koi	koi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	koi					long, that property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Goldfish live only three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Goldfish				month		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Goldfish live only a year, so she must have had lots of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 year	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 had	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	aux
11	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 live	parataxis
12	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Goldfish				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	must · perfect	she	lots of Goldfish					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

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