Test 8 · ★★★ · Water safety and the ocean
Your goldfish floats on its side. What might be wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goldfish · What happens: float, be · To what, where: side
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 13 «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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 goldfish floats on its side.
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 goldfish | nmod:poss |
| 2 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | nsubj |
| 3 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 side | nmod:poss |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Your goldfish | goldfish's side | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
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 might be wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It has eaten far too much fish food
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 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | aux |
| 3 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 much | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | compound |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eaten | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect · passive | It | tree rules |
Option 2
The water in the tank is too clean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clean | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tank | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tank | det |
| 5 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 clean | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 clean | advmod |
| 8 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the water in the tank | clean property | tree rules |
Option 3
It is just having a nap on its side
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 | 4 having | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 having | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 having | advmod |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nap | det |
| 6 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · progressive | It | a nap | nap's side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Its swim bladder may be sick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bladder | nmod:poss |
| 2 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bladder | compound |
| 3 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sick | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sick | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sick | cop |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | Its swim bladder | sick property | tree rules |
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