Test 6 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

Why is releasing a pet goldfish into a lake bad for nature?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: release · To what, where: pet goldfish, lake

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 releasing	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 releasing	aux
3	releasing	release	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goldfish	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goldfish	compound
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 releasing	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 releasing	obl
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lake	amod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 nature	case
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bad	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 releasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	present · progressive		a pet goldfish		a lake			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer goldfish=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

It can spread disease and harm the wild animals living there

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 spread	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 harm	cc
6	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spread	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animals	compound
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harm	obj
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 animals	acl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 living	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spread	can	It	disease		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme
2	harm	infinitive		the wild animals		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer
3	live	gerund	the wild animals not said here		there	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The lake water is far too clean and cold for goldfish to live in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clean	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 clean	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 clean	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 clean	advmod
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cold	cc
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clean	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 goldfish	case
11	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clean	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 live	mark
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 clean	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lake water	for goldfish; clean, far property	tree rules
2	be		the lake water not said here		tree rules
3	live in	to-infinitive	the lake water not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Goldfish cannot swim in big water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 swim	advmod
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	can	Goldfish			big water			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

Option 4

The goldfish will be lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goldfish	det
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lonely	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lonely	cop
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	the goldfish					lonely property	tree rules

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