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title: «a fish that breathes air? fish breathe water, mate» What is right? — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood… · tree and pragmatics
description: «a fish that breathes air? fish breathe water, mate» What is right? Test 6 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 6 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

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«a fish that breathes air? fish breathe water, mate» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fish, fish fish · **What happens:** breathe, be · **To what, where:** air, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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/155-the-amazon-river/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t6:1
# text = «a fish that breathes air? fish breathe water, mate» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** *in a quote* | present | a fish | air |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 2 | **breathe** *in a quote* | present | fish fish | water and mate |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | 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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The arapaima must gulp air because warm flood water holds little oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t6:o1:1
# text = The arapaima must gulp air because warm flood water holds little oxygen
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	arapaima	arapaima	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gulp	gulp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gulp** | must | the arapaima | air |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | present | warm flood water | little oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, it is just showing off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t6:o2:1
# text = Right, it is just showing off
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | present · progressive | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It only breathes air on land, when it crawls out of the river to rest

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t6:o3:1
# text = It only breathes air on land, when it crawls out of the river to rest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	crawls	crawl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | present | It | air |  | land |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Theme on land=Destination |
| 2 | **crawl** | present | air |  |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out river=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is a dolphin, not a fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t6:o4:1
# text = It is a dolphin, not a fish
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a dolphin and a fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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