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description: «why'd anyone care if people take a few clownfish off a reef for tanks» What is right? Test 8 · ★ 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 choice wa
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# Test 8 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones

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«why'd anyone care if people take a few clownfish off a reef for tanks» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people, tanks · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** few clownfish, reef

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t8:1
# text = «why'd anyone care if people take a few clownfish off a reef for tanks» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	compound	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | present | people | a few clownfish |  | a reef for tanks |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent clownfish=Theme off reef=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | tanks |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Taking many from one place leaves too few to lay eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t8:o1:1
# text = Taking many from one place leaves too few to lay eggs
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | many |  | one place |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent many=Theme from place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Taking | few |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive | few *not said here* | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Clownfish grow back from coral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t8:o2:1
# text = Clownfish grow back from coral
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow back** | present | Clownfish |  |  |  |  | from coral | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from coral=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Clownfish are happier in tanks, as there are no sharks there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t8:o3:1
# text = Clownfish are happier in tanks, as there are no sharks there
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Clownfish |  |  | tanks |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | no sharks |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The reef has endless clownfish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones:t8:o4:1
# text = The reef has endless clownfish
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the reef | endless clownfish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownfish=Patient |

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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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