Test 2 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank

«goldfish forget everything in 3 seconds, so who cares if it's bored» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: goldfish, it · What happens: forget, care, be · To what, where: everything

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	_	3 forget	punct
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forget	nsubj
3	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 forget	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 seconds	case
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 seconds	nummod
7	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forget	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cares	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 cares	advmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cares	nsubj
11	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	conj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 bored	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bored	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bored	cop
15	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cares	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 bored	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bored	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present	goldfish	everything	second		tree rules
2	care in a quote	present					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	it			bored property	tree rules
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That is a myth; goldfish remember things for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 remember	punct
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remember	nsubj
7	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remember	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 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	present	goldfish	things			month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 2

Only Dory remembers things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Dory	advmod
2	Dory	Dory	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 remembers	nsubj
3	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remembers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Dory	things					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 3

Goldfish forget in 3 minutes instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 minutes	case
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Goldfish				minute	instead property	tree rules

Option 4

Right, goldfish forget everything in 3 seconds flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 forget	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	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 seconds	case
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 seconds	nummod
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	obl
9	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forget	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	goldfish	everything			second	flat property	tree rules

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