Test 9 · Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, hudd…
A big fish on a reef waits with its mouth open while a tiny fish swims inside. Why doesn't it swallow the tiny fish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big fish, tiny fish, fish · What happens: wait, swim, not swallow · To what, where: tiny fish
This is test 9 of lesson 241 «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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
Sentence 1: A big fish on a reef waits with its mouth open while a tiny fish swims inside.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waits | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 reef | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reef | det |
| 6 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | nmod |
| 7 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waits | obl |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waits | xcomp |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 swims | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fish | amod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swims | nsubj |
| 16 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 waits | advcl |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 16 swims | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | a big fish on a reef | with fish's mouth; open property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | a tiny fish | inside property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Why doesn't it swallow the tiny fish?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 swallow | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swallow | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 swallow | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swallow | nsubj |
| 5 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fish | amod |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swallow | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 swallow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swallow | present · do-support | fish | the tiny fish | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It has no teeth
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 | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 teeth | det |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | no teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The tiny fish cleans it, so both gain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleans | nsubj |
| 4 | cleans | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cleans | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gain | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 gain | advmod |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gain | nsubj |
| 9 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleans | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | present | the tiny fish | it | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gain | present | both | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
It is not hungry at that moment
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 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hungry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | moment | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 4
The tiny fish is poisonous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poisonous | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poisonous | cop |
| 5 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the tiny fish | poisonous property | tree rules |
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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