Test 2 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

my brother reckons goldfish forget everything in 3 seconds. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, goldfish · What happens: reckon, forget · To what, where: everything

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	nsubj
5	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 forget	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 seconds	case
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 seconds	nummod
9	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reckons	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my brother						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	forget	present	goldfish	everything			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.

The options

Option 1

No, they forget everything in 3 days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 forget	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	nsubj
4	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 forget	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	they	everything			day		tree rules

Option 2

Yes, so they never get bored going round the bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 get	xcomp
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 bowl	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bowl	det
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	they					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	gerund	they not said here			the bowl			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round bowl=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, that is a myth, goldfish can remember for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 myth	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 myth	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 myth	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 myth	det
6	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remember	punct
8	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remember	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 remember	aux
10	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 myth	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 months	case
12	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a myth					tree rules
2	remember	can	goldfish				month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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