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Test 9 · Caring for pets

A girl in Adelaide keeps her goldfish in a small bowl that she never cleans. What will happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: keep, not clean, happen · To what, where: goldfish, small bowl

This is test 9 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» of the everyday 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 girl in Adelaide keeps her goldfish in a small bowl that she never cleans.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Adelaide	case
4	Adelaide	Adelaide	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 goldfish	nmod:poss
7	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 bowl	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bowl	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bowl	amod
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cleans	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cleans	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 cleans	advmod
15	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bowl	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a girl in Adelaide	girl's goldfish		a small bowl			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme in bowl=Location
2	not clean	present	girl	a small bowl					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=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 will happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The fish grows into a big fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 fish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the fish					into a big fish result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into fish=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The water gets dirty and the fish gets ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gets	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the water					dirty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	get	present	the fish					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The fish cleans the water itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleans	nsubj
3	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleans	obj
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 water	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	the fish	the water fish					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, fish do not need clean water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fish	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing fish	clean water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

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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