Test 11 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

«mammoth ate 150 kilos of plants a day, how is that even possible» Why did it need so much?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mammoth · What happens: eat, be, need · To what, where: 150 kilos

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» 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	_	3 ate	punct
2	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 kilos	nummod
5	kilos	kilo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 plants	case
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kilos	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 possible	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 possible	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 possible	cop
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 possible	mark
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 possible	advmod
15	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ate	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct
17	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 need	advmod
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 need	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 need	nsubj
20	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	20 need	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	mammoth	150 kilos of plants	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilo=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	mammoth not said here			possible property	tree rules
3	need	past · do-support	mammoth				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 ate only snacks

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	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 snacks	advmod
4	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It	snacks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Patient

Option 2

It needed the plants to build nests

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	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plants	det
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 build	mark
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needed	advcl
7	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	It	the plants					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plant=Theme
2	build	to-infinitive		nests					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

Option 3

It was always greedy and kept on eating even when its tummy was completely full

The tree, 15 words

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 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 greedy	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 greedy	advmod
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 greedy	conj
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 eating	mark
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kept	advcl
9	even	even	ADV	_	15 full	advmod
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 full	mark
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tummy	nmod:poss
12	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 full	cop
14	completely	completely	ADV	_	15 full	advmod
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 greedy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	It	always, greedy property	tree rules
2	keep	participle			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	its tummy	completely, full property	tree rules

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

Grass has little goodness, and a huge body needs lots of energy in the cold

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goodness	amod
4	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needs	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 needs	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 body	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 body	amod
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
11	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 needs	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 energy	case
13	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lots	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cold	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cold	det
16	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Grass	little goodness					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient
2	need	present	a huge body	lots of energy		the cold			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme

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