Test 1 · ★ · Fish, frogs and reptiles
A fish stays still in the middle of a tank, neither sinking nor rising. What helps it do this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: stay, sink, rise, help, do · To what, where: middle, fish, this
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 74 «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of the world 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: A fish stays still in the middle of a tank, neither sinking nor rising.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stays | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 middle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 middle | det |
| 7 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tank | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tank | det |
| 10 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 middle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sinking | punct |
| 12 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 sinking | cc:preconj |
| 13 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stays | advcl |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 rising | cc |
| 15 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sinking | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a fish | the middle of a tank | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | |||
| 2 | sink | gerund | a fish not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | a fish not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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 helps it do this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helps | obj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 helps | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | fish | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | fish not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Its tail fin
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 fin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fin | compound |
| 3 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Its swim bladder
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Its gills
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 | 2 gills | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Its lateral line
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 line | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lateral | lateral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 line | amod |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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