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title: «patrick star's dumb cos he's a starfish lol» Which is the true part? — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics
description: «patrick star's dumb cos he's a starfish lol» Which is the true part? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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 right.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore

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«patrick star's dumb cos he's a starfish lol» Which is the true part?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dumb cos, starfish · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** starfish, true part

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t2:1
# text = «patrick star's dumb cos he's a starfish lol» Which is the true part?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	patrick	patrick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	starfish	starfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | patrick star's dumb cos | a starfish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a starfish | the true part |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Starfish have a brain in each arm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t2:o1:1
# text = Starfish have a brain in each arm
1	Starfish	starfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Starfish | a brain |  | each arm |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A real starfish has no brain at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t2:o2:1
# text = A real starfish has no brain at all
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	starfish	starfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a real starfish | no brain |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Starfish are fish, so they have fish brains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t2:o3:1
# text = Starfish are fish, so they have fish brains
1	Starfish	starfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Starfish | fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Starfish | fish brains |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Starfish have huge brains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t2:o4:1
# text = Starfish have huge brains
1	Starfish	starfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Starfish | huge brains |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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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