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Test 7 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

Fish in a school aquarium gather at the front every morning before the teacher feeds them. What does this show?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fish, teacher, this · What happens: gather, feed, show · To what, where: front, Fish

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Fish in a school aquarium gather at the front every morning before the teacher feeds them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gather	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 aquarium	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 aquarium	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aquarium	compound
5	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fish	nmod
6	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 front	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 front	det
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gather	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gather	obl:unmarked
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 feeds	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 teacher	det
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feeds	nsubj
15	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gather	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feeds	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gather	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	present	Fish in a school aquarium			the front	morning		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	feed	present	the teacher	Fish					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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 does this show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Fish can learn and remember feeding times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 remember	cc
5	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	conj
6	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 times	compound
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	Fish						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remember	infinitive	Fish not said here				time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Fish get scared of children

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	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

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

Option 3

Fish forget everything in a few seconds, so it is just chance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 forget	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 seconds	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seconds	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seconds	amod
7	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chance	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 chance	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chance	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 chance	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 chance	advmod
13	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forget	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Fish	everything			second		tree rules
2	is a	present	it	chance					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Fish always swim to the front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 swim	advmod
3	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 front	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 front	det
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	Fish			the front		always property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination

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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