Test 8 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly

A fishing boat takes almost all the adult fish from a bay. What will happen in a few years?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fishing boat · What happens: take, happen · To what, where: adult fish, bay

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A fishing boat takes almost all the adult fish from a bay.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boat	det
2	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boat	compound
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fish	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
8	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 bay	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bay	det
12	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	a fishing boat	all adult fish		a bay			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from bay=Initial_Location

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: What will happen in a few years?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 years	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 years	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future					year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

There will be more fish than ever, because the young ones have the whole bay to themselves

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 be	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ones	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 be	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bay	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bay	amod
16	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 themselves	case
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 bay	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	future	more fish			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	the young ones	the whole bay				to fish	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bay=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The fish will grow back in a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	future	the fish				week		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing changes, the sea has endless fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 changes	ccomp
7	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Nothing						tree rules
2	have	present	the sea	endless fish					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

There will be few fish, because not enough adults were left to have babies

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 enough	advmod
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 adults	amod
10	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 be	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 left	advcl
15	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	future	few fish		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · passive		enough adults		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive		babies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

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