Test 10 · ★★ · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

«stupid cartoon, the fish is talking, fish make no sound at all innit» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: talk, make, be · To what, where: stupid cartoon, sound, innit, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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	_	3 cartoon	punct
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cartoon	amod
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talking	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talking	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talking	aux
8	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	nsubj
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talking	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 sound	det
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 innit	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 innit	det
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 answer	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 answer	amod
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	talk in a quote	present · progressive	the fish	stupid cartoon		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make in a quote	present	fish	no sound	all innit	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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

Right, fish are always completely silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 silent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 silent	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 silent	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 silent	advmod
6	completely	completely	ADV	_	7 silent	advmod
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fish					always, completely, silent property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only goldfish make sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 goldfish	advmod
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	goldfish	sounds					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product

Option 3

Fish can talk, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 night	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 night	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 night	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	can	Fish				night		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fish cannot talk, but many grunt, click or drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 click	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 click	cc
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grunt	amod
8	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 click	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 click	punct
10	click	click	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 talk	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 drum	cc
12	drum	drum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 click	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	not talk	can	Fish	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	click	infinitive	many grunt	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drum	infinitive	many grunt not said here	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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