Test 10 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

In a pitch-dark forest, how can a pit viper find a sleeping mouse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pit viper · What happens: find · To what, where: sleeping mouse, dark forest

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 137 «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 forest	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 forest	det
3	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 pitch	punct
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forest	amod
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 find	advmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 viper	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 viper	compound
12	viper	viper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
15	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mouse	compound
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can	a pit viper	a sleeping mouse		a dark forest			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic

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 hears the mouse's heartbeat with its big ears

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 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heartbeat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mouse	case
6	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hears	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 ears	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ears	amod
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	It	the mouse's heartbeat				with heartbeat's big ears	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heartbeat=Stimulus

Option 2

It waits for morning

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 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 morning	case
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	It				morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It sees in the dark with glowing eyes

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 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sees	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	It			the dark with glowing eyes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The pits on its face sense the mouse's body heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pits	det
2	pits	pit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sense	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pits	nmod
6	sense	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heat	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mouse	case
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heat	compound
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	present	the pits on its face	the mouse's body heat					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus
2	heat		the mouse						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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