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Test 5 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

A boy feeds his fish four times as much as they can eat. After a few days the water is cloudy and the fish are sick. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, they, water, fish · What happens: feed, eat, be · To what, where: fish

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy feeds his fish four times as much as they can eat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	nsubj
3	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fish	nmod:poss
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obj
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feeds	obl:unmarked
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feeds	advcl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 much	acl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feeds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	a boy		boy's fish		time		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient
2	eat	can	they						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: After a few days the water is cloudy and the fish are sick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cloudy	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cloudy	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cloudy	cop
8	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sick	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sick	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sick	cop
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cloudy	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cloudy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water				day	cloudy property	tree rules
2	is	present	the fish					sick property	tree rules

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

The bright light shining on the leftover food turned it cloudy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 light	amod
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
4	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 light	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 food	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 food	det
7	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	compound
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	obl
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	obj
11	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	the bright light not said here			the leftover food			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=Location
2	turn	past	the bright light	food				cloudy property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The uneaten food rotted and poisoned the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
2	uneaten	uneaten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 food	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 poisoned	cc
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rotted	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	participle	the uneaten food not said here	the water					tree rules
2	poison	participle	the uneaten food not said here						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Fish get sick from being too full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 full	case
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 full	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 full	advmod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Fish					sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	gerund						full property	tree rules

Option 4

The fish got fat and could not swim

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 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swim	cc
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swim	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 swim	advmod
8	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the fish					fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not swim	could	the fish not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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