Test 12 · What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in
«that swallow's been in our barn every summer, where's it go in winter, the attic?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swallow · What happens: be · To what, where: barn
This is test 12 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
Sentence 1: «that swallow's been in our barn every summer, where's it go in winter, the attic?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 barn | punct |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 swallow | det |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 barn | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 barn | cop |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 barn | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 barn | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 barn | nmod:poss |
| 8 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 summer | det |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 barn | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 go | advmod |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 summer | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 winter | case |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attic | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 attic | det |
| 20 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 barn | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 barn | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 barn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that swallow | our barn and the attic | summer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | swallow | winter | go 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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It sleeps all winter in the barn roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sleeps | nsubj |
| 2 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 winter | det |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleeps | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 7 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roof | compound |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleeps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | It | the barn roof | winter | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in roof=Location |
Option 2
It hides in the mud of the pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hides | nsubj |
| 2 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mud | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mud | det |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hides | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pond | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pond | det |
| 8 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mud | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | It | the mud of the pond | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It flies about 10,000 km to southern Africa and often comes back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 10,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 km | nummod |
| 5 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Africa | case |
| 7 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Africa | amod |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 comes | cc |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 comes | advmod |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flies | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 comes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | It | 10,000 km | southern Africa | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent km=Theme to africa=Destination | |||
| 2 | come back | present | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It dies in the autumn, and a brand new swallow comes to the barn each year
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dies | nsubj |
| 2 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 autumn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 autumn | det |
| 5 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dies | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 comes | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 swallow | det |
| 9 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 10 new | advmod |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 swallow | amod |
| 11 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dies | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 barn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 barn | det |
| 15 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obl |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | It | autumn | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | present | a new swallow | the barn | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to barn=Initial_Location |
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