Test 6 · ★★ · Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth

What would happen if a pet goldfish was released into a big lake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, release · To what, where: pet goldfish, big lake

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 released	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 goldfish	det
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goldfish	compound
7	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 released	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 released	aux:pass
9	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 lake	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lake	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	amod
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 released	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	release a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a pet goldfish		a big lake			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

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

It would stay tiny and gold

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gold	cc
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tiny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					tiny property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would always die at once, because lake water is far too cold

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 die	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 die	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 cold	mark
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cold	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	cop
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 cold	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 cold	advmod
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 die	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	It					always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	present	lake water					cold, far property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could grow huge, turn dull and harm wild fish

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 grow	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
7	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 harm	cc
9	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	could	It		huge property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	infinitive			dull property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	harm	infinitive		wild fish		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer

Option 4

It would swim back to the shop

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 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 swim	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 shop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim back	would	It			the shop			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shop=Destination

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