Test 5 · ★★ · Migration: the great journeys

How could a fish remember the smell of one river after years in the ocean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish, one river · What happens: remember, smell · To what, where: smell

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Migration: the great journeys» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 remember	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 remember	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	nsubj
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smell	det
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remember	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 river	nummod
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	nmod
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ocean	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ocean	det
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	could	a fish	the smell of one river			year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
2	smell		one river						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 reads the river's name on the signs by the bridges as it swims up

The tree, 16 words

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	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 river	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 signs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 signs	det
9	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 name	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 bridges	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridges	det
12	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 signs	nmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 swims	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swims	nsubj
15	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 swims	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	present	It	the river's name	the signs by the bridges	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	swim up	present	name			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	name		the river		the signs by the bridges	nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place
4	sign		the bridges			nom sign «communication transitive»: by=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It learned the smell when young, and its sense of smell is very good

The tree, 14 words

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	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smell	det
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learned	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 young	advmod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 learned	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 good	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sense	nmod:poss
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 good	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 smell	case
12	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sense	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 learned	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	past	It	the smell		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic
2	is	present	smell's sense of smell		good property	tree rules
3	sense		smell	smell		nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 3

It follows other fish that have a map

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	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follows	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 map	det
8	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	It	other fish					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	have	present	other fish	a map					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient

Option 4

It never left the river at all

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 left	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 left	advmod
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	past	It	the river		all			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent river=Theme at all=Location

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