Test 8 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank
A cartoon pufferfish blows up by gulping a big breath of air at the surface. What is closer to the truth?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon pufferfish · What happens: blow up, gulp, be · To what, where: big breath, surface
This is test 8 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon pufferfish blows up by gulping a big breath of air at the surface.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pufferfish | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pufferfish | compound |
| 3 | pufferfish | pufferfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 blows | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 gulping | mark |
| 7 | gulping | gulp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 blows | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 breath | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 breath | amod |
| 10 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gulping | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breath | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 surface | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 surface | det |
| 15 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gulping | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow up | present | a cartoon pufferfish | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | gulp | gerund | a cartoon pufferfish not said here | a big breath of air | the surface | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What is closer to the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 closer | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closer | cop |
| 3 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 truth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closer | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 closer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | to the truth; close property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It is always round
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 | 4 round | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 round | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 round | advmod |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | always, round property | tree rules |
Option 2
It is filled up with air by its mother
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 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | aux:pass |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 filled | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill up | present · passive | air's mother | It | with air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with air=Instrument |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In the sea it swallows water fast to blow up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swallows | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swallows | nsubj |
| 5 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swallows | obj |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 swallows | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 blow | mark |
| 9 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swallows | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 blow | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | sea | water | the sea | fast property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||
| 2 | blow up | to-infinitive | sea not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
It blows up whenever it is happy and full
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 blows | nsubj |
| 2 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 blows | compound:prt |
| 4 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 happy | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blows | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 full | cc |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow up | present | It | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | happy, whenever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tree rules |
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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