Test 5 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

«snake's licking the air, is it thirsty» What is it really doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: snake, it · What happens: lick, be, do · To what, where: air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 licking	punct
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 licking	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 licking	aux
4	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thirsty	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 licking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 licking	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thirsty	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thirsty	nsubj
10	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 thirsty	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 doing	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 doing	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 doing	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 doing	advmod
16	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thirsty	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 thirsty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lick in a quote	present · progressive	snake	the air		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent air=Source
2	is in a quote	present	it		thirsty property	tree rules
3	do	present · progressive	snake			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Cooling its mouth down on a hot day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mouth	nmod:poss
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooling	obj
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Cooling	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	gerund		its mouth			day	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient

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

Picking up smells with its tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Picking	compound:prt
3	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picking	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 tongue	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	gerund		smells				with its tongue	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic

Option 3

Drinking little drops of rain from the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drops	amod
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drinking	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		little drops of rain		the air			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient

Option 4

Trying to bite the flies in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 bite	mark
3	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flies	det
5	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bite not said to happen	to-infinitive		the flies		the air			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fly=Patient in air=Location

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