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title: In SpongeBob, fish live in houses and drive boats. What do real clow… — Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In SpongeBob, fish live in houses and drive boats. What do real clownfish actually live in? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 132 «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones

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In SpongeBob, fish live in houses and drive boats. What do real clownfish actually live in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fish, real clownfish · **What happens:** live, drive, be, live in · **To what, where:** SpongeBob, boats

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 132 «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In SpongeBob, fish live in houses and drive boats.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t4:1
# text = In SpongeBob, fish live in houses and drive boats.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	SpongeBob	SpongeBob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | fish |  |  | SpongeBob |  | in houses | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spongebob=Location |
| 2 | **drive** | present | fish *not said here* | boats |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What do real clownfish actually live in?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t4:2
# text = What do real clownfish actually live in?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | real clownfish |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live in** | present | real clownfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Holes dug in the sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t4:o1:1
# text = Holes dug in the sand
1	Holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | participle |  | Holes *not said here* |  | the sand |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The stinging tentacles of a sea anemone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t4:o2:1
# text = The stinging tentacles of a sea anemone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	_
3	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Hollow pineapples on the sandy sea floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t4:o3:1
# text = Hollow pineapples on the sandy sea floor
1	Hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pineapples	pineapple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sunken ships only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t4:o4:1
# text = Sunken ships only
1	Sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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