Test 6 · ★ · The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps

«penguin's drinking seawater, it'll get sick, stop it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: penguin · What happens: drink, get, stop, be · To what, where: seawater, penguin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 129 «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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	_	4 drinking	punct
2	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinking	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drinking	aux
4	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 get	csubj
5	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drinking	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 get	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stop	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink in a quote	present · progressive	penguin	seawater		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient
2	get in a quote	future	penguin		sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	stop in a quote	infinitive	penguin not said here	penguin		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
4	is	present			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

Yes, penguins need clean tap water, salt water makes them ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
6	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 makes	punct
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	nsubj
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 makes	obj
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	penguins	clean tap water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
2	make	present	salt water	penguins = penguin				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is fine; a gland above its eyes takes out the extra salt

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 fine	expl
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	_	10 takes	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gland	det
6	gland	gland	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	nsubj
7	above	above	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gland	nmod
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 takes	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 salt	det
13	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 salt	amod
14	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	take out	present	a gland above gland's eyes	the extra salt					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme

Option 3

Yes, stop it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, salt makes them float away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	salt	them = they					tree rules
2	float away	infinitive	them = they not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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