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In Finding Nemo, Dory the fish forgets everything in seconds. What does science say about some fish?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish, science · What happens: forget, say · To what, where: everything, Finding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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: In Finding Nemo, Dory the fish forgets everything in seconds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Finding	case
2	Finding	Finding	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 forgets	obl
3	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Finding	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Dory	punct
5	Dory	Dory	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Finding	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgets	nsubj
8	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 forgets	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 seconds	case
11	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 forgets	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 forgets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	the fish	everything		Finding and Dory	second		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.

Sentence 2: What does science say about some fish?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 fish	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	science					about some fish	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Fish can talk like Dory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Dory	case
5	Dory	Dory	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	can	Fish					like Dory	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Fish have no brains at all

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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 brains	det
4	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 brains	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Fish	no brains		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some fish use tools, and some seemed to notice themselves in a mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seemed	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 notice	mark
10	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	xcomp
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 notice	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 mirror	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mirror	det
14	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 notice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	some fish	tools					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient
2	seem	past	some						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	notice	to-infinitive	some not said here	tools = tool		a mirror			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Every fish forgets everything in three seconds, just like Dory in the film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgets	nsubj
3	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 forgets	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 seconds	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 seconds	nummod
7	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forgets	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Dory	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 Dory	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 Dory	case
11	Dory	Dory	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forgets	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 film	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 film	det
14	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	every fish	everything		the film	second		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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