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title: «Nemo's dad lived in the sea, so I'll put a clownfish in my cold tap… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters a… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 2 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

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«Nemo's dad lived in the sea, so I'll put a clownfish in my cold tap-water tank» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad, I, cold tap water tank · **What happens:** live, put, be · **To what, where:** sea, clownfish, cold tap water tank

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 203 «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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/203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours:t2:1
# text = «Nemo's dad lived in the sea, so I'll put a clownfish in my cold tap-water tank» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | past | Nemo's dad |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | future | I | a clownfish |  | my cold tap water tank |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clownfish=Theme in tank=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | my cold tap water tank |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Any fish can live in any water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours:t2:o1:1
# text = Any fish can live in any water
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | can | any fish |  |  | any water |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |

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

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Clownfish need warm sea water, so this would kill it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours:t2:o2:1
# text = Clownfish need warm sea water, so this would kill it
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Clownfish | warm sea water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | would | this | water |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Clownfish love cold tap water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours:t2:o3:1
# text = Clownfish love cold tap water
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Clownfish | cold tap water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Clownfish only live in films

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours:t2:o4:1
# text = Clownfish only live in films
1	Clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Clownfish |  |  | films |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location |

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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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