Test 1 · ★★ · Friends who cling to a legend

"ur WRONG goldfish forget everything in 3 seconds everyone knows that" What's true, said kindly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: WRONG goldfish, everyone · What happens: forget, know, be, say · To what, where: everything, 3 seconds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
2	ur	ur	ADV	_	3 WRONG	advmod
3	WRONG	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goldfish	amod
4	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	nsubj
5	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 forget	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 seconds	case
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 seconds	nummod
9	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	obl
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seconds	acl:relcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 true	mark
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 true	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knows	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present	WRONG goldfish	everything	second		tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	everyone	3 seconds not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer second=Stimulus
3	is	present				true property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past				kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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

They forget in one second, not three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 second	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 second	nummod
5	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forget	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 three	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 three	advmod
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forget	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	They				second		tree rules

Option 2

Shut up, goldfish don't have brains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Shut	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
4	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shut	conj
8	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not have	present · do-support	goldfish	brains					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

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

They can actually remember for months; want to look it up?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 remember	advmod
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remember	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remember	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 look	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 look	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	can	They		month	actually property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	want	infinitive	They not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	look up not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	it			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 4

You're right, three seconds exactly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seconds	punct
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 seconds	nummod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl:unmarked
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 seconds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You				second	right property	tree rules

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