Test 7 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank

«why doesn't the grouper just eat the cleaner fish, free snack innit» Which answer fits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: answer · What happens: eat, fit · To what, where: cleaner fish

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	2 why	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 why	advcl:relcl
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 grouper	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grouper	det
6	grouper	grouper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
10	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	compound
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 innit	amod
14	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 innit	compound
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	appos
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
17	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	18 answer	det
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fits	nsubj
19	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fish	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present		the cleaner fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	fit	present	which answer						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Groupers do not eat fish at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Groupers	grouper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	Groupers	fish		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 2

Cleaner fish are poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	compound
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisonous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	cop
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cleaner fish					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 3

Groupers cannot open their mouths wide enough to swallow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Groupers	grouper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 open	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 open	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 open	advmod
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouths	nmod:poss
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 open	obj
7	wide	wide	ADV	_	4 open	advmod
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 open	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swallow	mark
10	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 open	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not open	can	Groupers	Groupers's mouths				enough, wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	swallow	to-infinitive	Groupers not said here	it					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both win: the big fish gets cleaned, the cleaner gets fed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 win	nsubj
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cleaned	advcl
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 win	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	nsubj:pass
7	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cleaned	aux:pass
8	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cleaned	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cleaner	det
11	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fed	nsubj:pass
12	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fed	aux:pass
13	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cleaned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	win	present	Both		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clean	present · passive		the big fish	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	feed	present · passive		the cleaner	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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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