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title: «a fish that lives 8 weeks?? that's shorter than summer holidays» Wh… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the l… · tree and pragmatics
description: «a fish that lives 8 weeks?? that's shorter than summer holidays» What is right? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 9 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

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«a fish that lives 8 weeks?? that's shorter than summer holidays» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** live, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t9:1
# text = «a fish that lives 8 weeks?? that's shorter than summer holidays» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | a fish |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a fish |  |  |  |  | than summer holidays; short *property* | tree rules |
| 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yes, the coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, the coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	goby	goby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the coral pygmy goby |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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No fish lives for less than a year, not even the tiniest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t9:o2:1
# text = No fish lives for less than a year, not even the tiniest
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | no fish |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t9:o3:1
# text = It is a mayfly, 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	mayfly	mayfly	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 mayfly and a fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fish live forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t9:o4:1
# text = Fish live forever
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Fish |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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