Test 10 · What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in

«why'd the zoo need to grow eucalyptus just for the koalas, give 'em lettuce» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo · What happens: need, grow, give, be · To what, where: zoo, eucalyptus, lettuce, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 1 «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 zoo	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 zoo	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obl
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 grow	mark
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
9	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obj
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 koalas	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 koalas	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 koalas	det
13	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grow	conj
16	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present		the zoo			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	grow not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the zoo not said here	eucalyptus		for the koalas	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent eucalyptus=Product for koala=Beneficiary
3	give in a quote	infinitive	the zoo not said here	lettuce	'em = they		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lettuce=Theme
4	is	present				right property	tree rules

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

Option 1

Koalas would happily eat lettuce instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	Koalas	lettuce				happily, instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient

Option 2

Koalas eat meat, and the eucalyptus leaves are only there for bedding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 there	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leaves	det
7	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	compound
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 there	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 eat	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 bedding	case
13	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 there	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Koalas	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
2	is	present	the eucalyptus leaves					for bedding; there property	tree rules

Option 3

Any tree leaves will do for a koala

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 leaves	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	compound
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 koala	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 koala	det
8	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	any tree leaves					for a koala	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Koalas eat almost only eucalyptus and need special gut bacteria for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 only	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eucalyptus	advmod
5	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 need	cc
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
8	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bacteria	amod
9	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bacteria	compound
10	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Koalas	eucalyptus				for bacteria	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eucalyptus=Patient
2	need	present	Koalas not said here	special gut bacteria					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bacteria=Theme

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