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Test 6 · ★ · Animals in the sea and the river

Your uncle says fishing doesn't hurt fish because "they don't scream". What's the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, fishing, they, fair answer · What happens: say, not hurt, not scream, be · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 11 «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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: Your uncle says fishing doesn't hurt fish because "they don't scream".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hurt	advmod
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 scream	mark
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 scream	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scream	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 scream	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 scream	advmod
14	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hurt	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 scream	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hurt	present · do-support	fishing	fish					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Patient
3	not scream speech: express in a quote	present · do-support	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: What's the fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

He's right, no scream means no pain

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	's	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 means	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 scream	det
6	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 pain	det
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	mean	present	no scream	no pain					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Topic

Option 2

Fish scream underwater all the time, where people can't hear them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scream	nsubj
2	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	underwater	underwater	ADV	_	2 scream	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scream	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 hear	advmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hear	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hear	advmod
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scream	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	Fish				time	underwater property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not hear	can	people	Fish					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only big fish feel pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 fish	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	big fish	pain					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not showing pain like us isn't the same as not feeling it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 showing	advmod
2	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 same	csubj
3	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showing	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 showing	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 feeling	mark
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 feeling	advmod
12	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 same	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feeling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not show	gerund		pain				like us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient
2	not is	present	showing					same property	tree rules
3	not feel	gerund	showing not said here	pain					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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