Test 11 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

«bubble-eye goldfish must be the best swimmers, look at em» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eye goldfish · What happens: be, look · To what, where: best swimmers, em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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	_	10 swimmers	punct
2	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 bubble	punct
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goldfish	compound
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swimmers	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 swimmers	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 swimmers	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swimmers	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 swimmers	amod
10	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 swimmers	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 em	case
14	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 swimmers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	eye goldfish	the best swimmers			tree rules
2	look in a quote	infinitive			em		tree rules
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

Yes, the bubbles help them float and swim much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bubbles	det
4	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swim	cc
9	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 float	conj
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 faster	advmod
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	the bubbles	them = they		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	float	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swim	infinitive	them = they not said here		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, they live wild in rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 live	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rivers	case
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they			rivers		wild property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, many fancy kinds swim slowly or see badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 swim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swim	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kinds	amod
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kinds	amod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swim	nsubj
6	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 swim	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	conj
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	many fancy kinds					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	many fancy kinds not said here					badly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

No, they cannot swim at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 swim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swim	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 swim	advmod
6	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	can	they			all			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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