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Test 10 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

«does a hippo drown when it falls asleep under water?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hippo · What happens: drown, fall, be · To what, where: water

This is test 10 of lesson 128 «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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: «does a hippo drown when it falls asleep under water?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 drown	punct
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drown	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hippo	det
4	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drown	nsubj
5	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 falls	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drown	ccomp
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 falls	xcomp
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falls	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drown	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 drown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown in a quote	present · do-support	a hippo						tree rules
2	fall in a quote	present	hippo			water		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location

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

No, hippos breathe water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 hippos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breathe	nsubj
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	hippos	water					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it can come up for air while asleep without waking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 come	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 asleep	mark
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	advcl
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 waking	mark
12	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	can	it					for air	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

No, hippos never sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 hippos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleep	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 sleep	advmod
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	present	hippos						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, hippos often drown if they fall asleep in deep water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 hippos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drown	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 drown	advmod
5	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 fall	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drown	advcl
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fall	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present	hippos					often property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	present	hippos = hippo			deep water		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in water=Location

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