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title: «bubble-eye goldfish must be the best swimmers, look at em» What is… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals Ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: «bubble-eye goldfish must be the best swimmers, look at em» What is right? Test 11 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 11 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

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«bubble-eye goldfish must be the best swimmers, look at em» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** eye goldfish · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** best swimmers, em · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t11:1
# text = «bubble-eye goldfish must be the best swimmers, look at em» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	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	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | eye goldfish | the best swimmers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | em |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, the bubbles help them float and swim much faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, the bubbles help them float and swim much faster
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | the bubbles | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swim** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, they live wild in rivers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, they live wild in rivers
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, many fancy kinds swim slowly or see badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t11:o3:1
# text = No, many fancy kinds swim slowly or see badly
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present | many fancy kinds |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | many fancy kinds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, they cannot swim at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t11:o4:1
# text = No, they cannot swim at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** | can | they |  |  | all |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |

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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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