Test 4 · Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails,…

«goldfish only remember 3 seconds, so he won't mind the tiny bowl» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: goldfish, he · What happens: remember, not mind, be · To what, where: tiny bowl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 249 «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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 remember	punct
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 remember	advmod
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 seconds	nummod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mind	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 mind	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mind	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mind	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mind	advmod
12	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remember	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bowl	det
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bowl	amod
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mind	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 remember	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 remember	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	present	goldfish		second		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	not mind in a quote	future	he	the tiny bowl			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
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

Goldfish remember for months and can learn tricks, so they need space and interest

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 months	case
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 learn	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 learn	aux
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remember	conj
8	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	parataxis
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 interest	cc
15	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 space	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	remember	present	Goldfish		month	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	learn	can	Goldfish not said here	tricks		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
3	need	present	Goldfish	space and interest		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme

Option 2

True, so a small bare bowl is fine, because it will forget everything every few seconds

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bowl	amod
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bowl	amod
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fine	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forget	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 forget	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forget	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 forget	aux
14	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fine	conj
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 forget	obj
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 seconds	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seconds	amod
18	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a small bare bowl					fine property	tree rules
2	forget	future	bowl	everything			second		tree rules

Option 3

They remember for exactly one day

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	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	They				day		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

True, but only for orange ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ones	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 ones	case
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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