Test 7 · ★ · The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps

«the middle of a penguin huddle is freezing, right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: middle, freezing · What happens: freeze, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	9 freezing	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 freezing	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 huddle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 huddle	det
6	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 huddle	compound
7	huddle	huddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 freezing	aux
9	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 right	csubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 freezing	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	9 freezing	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 freezing	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 freezing	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze in a quote	present · progressive	the middle of a penguin huddle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient what=Result
2	is	present	freezing					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, it turns to ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	it			ice			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ice=Trajectory

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

The middle can be warmer than a summer day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmer	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 warmer	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 warmer	cop
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	compound
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	the middle				day	warm property	tree rules

Option 3

Penguins never huddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 huddle	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 huddle	advmod
3	huddle	huddle	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 huddle	present	Penguins						vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, the middle is colder than the outside, as no sun reaches it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 colder	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colder	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colder	cop
6	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 outside	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 outside	det
9	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colder	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reaches	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 reaches	mark
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reaches	nsubj
14	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colder	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reaches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the middle					than the outside; cold property	tree rules
2	reach	present	no sun	middle					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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