Test 5 · How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses,…

«my goldfish is dead, it's just hanging there with its eyes open» What is probably happening?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: goldfish · What happens: be, hang, happen

This is test 5 of lesson 390 «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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	_	5 dead	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 goldfish	nmod:poss
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hanging	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hanging	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hanging	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 hanging	advmod
10	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dead	conj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 hanging	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hanging	obl
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hanging	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 happening	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 happening	aux
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	20 happening	advmod
20	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dead	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	my goldfish		dead property	tree rules
2	hang in a quote	present · progressive	goldfish	there	with goldfish's eyes; open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	present · progressive			probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It is staring at you because it wants food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 staring	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 staring	aux
3	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 staring	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 wants	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 staring	advcl
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	present · progressive	It					at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
2	want	present	it	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 2

It is holding its breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 holding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holding	aux
3	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breath	nmod:poss
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · progressive	It	its breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

Option 3

It is definitely dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					dead, definitely property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is resting; fish have no eyelids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 resting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 resting	aux
3	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 resting	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 eyelids	det
8	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present · progressive	It						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	fish	no eyelids					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient

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