Test 12 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank

«that eel keeps opening its gob at me, wants a fight» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: eel · What happens: keep, open, want, be · To what, where: gob, fight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 90 «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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	_	4 keeps	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 eel	det
3	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gob	nmod:poss
7	gob	gob	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opening	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 opening	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wants	punct
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keeps	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fight	det
13	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wants	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keeps	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	that eel			tree rules
2	open in a quote	gerund	that eel not said here	eel's gob	at me	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent gob=Theme at i=Location
3	want in a quote	present	that eel not said here	a fight		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fight=Theme
4	is	present			right property	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

It wants to be fed by hand

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 fed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fed	aux:pass
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wants	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	hand						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is singing to you

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 singing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · progressive	It		you				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient

Option 3

It is about to jump out of the tank

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 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 jump	mark
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 tank	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tank	det
9	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	jump out	to-infinitive		the tank					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tank=Trajectory

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

It is pumping water over its gills to breathe

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 pumping	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pumping	aux
3	pumping	pump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pumping	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 gills	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gills	nmod:poss
7	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pumping	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 breathe	mark
9	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gills	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pump	present · progressive	It	water		water's gills			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over gill=Destination
2	breathe	to-infinitive							vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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