Test 3 · What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in

«found a woodlouse, gonna keep it in a jar on the windowsill in the sun» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best advice · What happens: find, keep, be · To what, where: woodlouse, jar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woodlouse	det
4	woodlouse	woodlouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 keep	dep
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 jar	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jar	det
11	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 windowsill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 windowsill	det
14	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 found	parataxis
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 advice	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 advice	amod
23	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a woodlouse			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent woodlouse=Attribute clause=Theme
2	keep in a quote	infinitive		woodlouse	a jar	on the windowsill; in the sun	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in jar=Location
3	is a	present	the best advice				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 · ← Mova's choice

Put it in a dry jar so it does not drown in the damp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 jar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jar	det
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jar	amod
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 drown	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drown	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 drown	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 drown	advmod
11	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Put	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 damp	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 damp	det
14	damp	damp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it		a dry jar			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in jar=Destination
2	not drown	present · do-support	jar			the damp			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Give it a dish of cheese and nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dish	det
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cheese	case
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dish	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nothing	cc
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 dish	conj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a dish of cheese	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient dish=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Give it damp soil, leaves and shade, or it will dry out and die

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soil	amod
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaves	punct
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soil	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shade	cc
8	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soil	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dry	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 dry	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dry	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dry	aux
13	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 dry	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 die	cc
16	die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	damp soil and leaves and shade	it	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient soil=Theme
2	dry out	future	shade			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	die	infinitive	you not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Sun is fine, it is an insect and likes heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 insect	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 insect	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 insect	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 insect	det
8	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 likes	cc
10	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	conj
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sun		fine property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a insect		tree rules
3	like	present	Sun not said here	heat		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heat=Theme

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