Test 11 · ★★★ · The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and g…

Why would a frog bother to feed its tadpoles its own eggs in a bromeliad pool?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: feed · To what, where: own eggs, tadpoles, bromeliad pool

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 108 «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bother	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bother	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bother	det
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bother	compound
5	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feed	mark
7	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bother	acl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tadpoles	nmod:poss
9	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feed	obj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eggs	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eggs	amod
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feed	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 pool	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pool	det
15	bromeliad	bromeliad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pool	compound
16	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive		bother's own eggs	bother's tadpoles	a bromeliad pool			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tadpole=Recipient egg=Theme

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

It is getting rid of bad eggs

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	3 getting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	aux
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 getting	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eggs	amod
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	It					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Tadpoles only like eggs from other frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eggs	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 eggs	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 eggs	case
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 frogs	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frogs	amod
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eggs	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The eggs keep the water warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the eggs	the water				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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

The tiny pool has almost no other food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pool	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pool	amod
3	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 food	advmod
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 food	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the tiny pool	no other food					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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