Test 9 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

«gonna tip my goldfish in the lake, it'll be happier there» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, goldfish, best answer · What happens: tip, be · To what, where: goldfish, lake

This is test 9 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	_	3 tip	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 tip	dep
3	tip	tip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 goldfish	nmod:poss
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tip	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tip	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happier	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 happier	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happier	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 happier	cop
13	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tip	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 happier	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 tip	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 tip	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tip in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my goldfish	the lake		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme in lake=Destination
2	is in a quote	future	goldfish		there	happy property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer				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, but only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 winter	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 winter	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, goldfish belong in lakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 belong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 belong	nsubj
4	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 lakes	case
6	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 belong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	goldfish			lakes			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fine, it will turn back into a wild carp in a week or two

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 carp	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 carp	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carp	amod
10	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 week	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 two	cc
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 week	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	future	it			a wild carp	week		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it can harm wild fish; ask a pet shop or rehome it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 harm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 harm	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harm	aux
5	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harm	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harm	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shop	det
11	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shop	compound
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 rehome	cc
14	rehome	rehome	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shop	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	can	it	wild fish					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive		a pet shop or rehome	rehome				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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