Test 8 · The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and rei…
«arctic fox is basically a fennec fox in a white coat» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: arctic fox, white coat · What happens: be · To what, where: fennec fox, white coat
This is test 8 of lesson 106 «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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 | _ | 8 fox | punct |
| 2 | arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fox | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fox | cop |
| 5 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 8 fox | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 7 | fennec | fennec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fox | compound |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coat | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coat | amod |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fox | nmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 coat | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 right | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coat | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 fox | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | arctic fox | a fennec fox | a white coat | basically property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | a white coat | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The arctic fox has small ears to save heat; the fennec has huge ears to lose it
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 2 | arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ears | amod |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 save | mark |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ears | acl |
| 9 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 save | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fennec | det |
| 12 | fennec | fennec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ears | amod |
| 15 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lose | mark |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 has | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the arctic fox | small ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | the arctic fox not said here | heat | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the fennec | huge ears | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | huge ears not said here | fennec | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 2
No, the arctic fox has bigger ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 4 | arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fox | amod |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ears | amod |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the arctic fox | bigger ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, they have the same huge ears that let heat escape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ears | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ears | amod |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ears | amod |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 let | nsubj |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ears | acl:relcl |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | they | the same huge ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | present | the same huge ears | heat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | heat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, both live in the desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 desert | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | both | the desert | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location |
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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