Test 10 · ★ · The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wil…

«warthogs walk into their holes head first, don't they» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: warthogs · What happens: walk, do, be · To what, where: holes head, warthogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 102 «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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	_	3 walk	punct
2	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nsubj
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 head	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
6	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 head	compound
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 walk	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	conj
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 they	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 they	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 do	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	present	warthogs		into warthogs's holes head result; first property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into head=Result
2	do in a quote	infinitive	warthogs not said here	warthogs = warthog		tree rules
3	is	present			true 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They back in, so their tusks face out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 back	nsubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	8 face	advmod
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 back	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 face	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 face	advmod
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tusks	nmod:poss
7	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 face	nsubj
8	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 face	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face out	present	their tusks						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They never go into holes at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 holes	case
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present	They			holes		at all	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location

Option 3

They sleep on top of the hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 top	case
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hole	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hole	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	They			top of the hole			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, head first, so they can dig deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 dig	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 head	punct
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yes	appos
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 head	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 dig	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dig	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 dig	aux
9	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 dig	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	can	they					deep property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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