Test 10 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly
«eat your fish slowly» says Gran. Why does she have a point?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gran · What happens: eat, say, have · To what, where: fish, point · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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: «eat your fish slowly» says Gran.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fish | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eat | obj |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 eat | advmod |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | infinitive | your fish | slowly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Gran | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 does she have a point?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 point | det |
| 6 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | Gran | a point | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Fish have many small bones that are easy to swallow by mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bones | amod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bones | amod |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 easy | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 easy | cop |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bones | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 swallow | mark |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 easy | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mistake | case |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swallow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Fish | many small bones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | many small bones | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swallow | to-infinitive | many small bones not said here | by mistake | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Fish is only good for you if eaten slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 good | obl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 eaten | mark |
| 8 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 good | advcl |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 eaten | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fish | for you; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat a condition, not said to happen | participle | Fish not said here | slowly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Fast eating turns fish into meat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eating | amod |
| 2 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 meat | case |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Fast eating | fish | meat | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into meat=Trajectory |
Option 4
Fish go cold faster than meat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 go | xcomp |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 go | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 meat | case |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Fish | than meat; cold, fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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