Test 8 · ★ · The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps

«penguin at the zoo's on a warm beach, it'll melt» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: penguin · What happens: melt, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	2 penguin	punct
2	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 melt	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 zoo	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 penguin	nmod
6	's	's	PART	_	5 zoo	case
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 beach	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beach	det
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beach	amod
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 penguin	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 penguin	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 melt	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 melt	aux
14	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 melt	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 melt	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 melt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt in a quote	future	penguin at the zoo on a warm beach						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

African penguins live on warm coasts naturally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 penguins	amod
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 coasts	case
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coasts	amod
6	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
7	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	3 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	African penguins			warm coasts		naturally property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coast=Location

Option 2

All zoo penguins are fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 penguins	det
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 penguins	compound
3	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fake	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fake	cop
5	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all zoo penguins					fake property	tree rules

Option 3

It must be moved to ice at once

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	4 moved	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 moved	aux:pass
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	must · passive		It		ice			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ice=Source at once=Trajectory

Option 4

Penguins melt in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 melt	nsubj
2	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Penguins			the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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