Test 18 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

my mate says fish should get loads of food so they never get hungry

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, fish, loads · What happens: say, get, not get · To what, where: loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 63 «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loads	nmod
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 get	advmod
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	advcl
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	should	fish	loads of food		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus
3	not get	present	loads = load		hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He is right, fish are always hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hungry	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hungry	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	fish					always, hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

He is right, if you clean the tank daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clean	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 clean	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 clean	nsubj
7	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tank	det
9	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clean	obj
10	daily	daily	ADV	_	7 clean	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	clean a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the tank				daily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tank=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wrong; give only what they eat in a couple of minutes, as leftovers rot

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wrong	parataxis
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 give	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 couple	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 couple	det
10	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 minutes	case
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 couple	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rot	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 rot	mark
15	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rot	nsubj
16	rot	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	give	infinitive			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	eat	present	they	a couple of minutes	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rot	present	leftovers		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He is right, more food is always better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 better	punct
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 better	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 better	advmod
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	more food					always, good property	tree rules

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