Test 8 · ★★ · Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothin…

Why might parthenogenesis help a lone female Komodo that reaches an empty island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parthenogenesis, lone female Komodo · What happens: help, reach · To what, where: lone female Komodo, empty island

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 146 «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 parthenogenesis	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 parthenogenesis	aux
3	parthenogenesis	parthenogenesis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Komodo	det
6	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Komodo	amod
7	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Komodo	amod
8	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 help	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 reaches	nsubj
10	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Komodo	acl:relcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 island	det
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 island	amod
13	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaches	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	parthenogenesis		a lone female Komodo				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent komodo=Beneficiary
2	reach	present	a lone female Komodo	a empty island					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme

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

She could turn into a male later and find a female

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 male	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 male	det
6	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 turn	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 female	det
11	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	could	She			a male		late property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into male=Trajectory
2	find	infinitive	She not said here	a female					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Topic

Option 2

She would never need to eat again, living off the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 living	punct
9	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 eat	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not need	would	She			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here		again	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live off	gerund	She not said here	the sun		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme sun=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She could start a new group without a male

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 group	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 group	amod
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 male	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 male	det
9	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	could	She	a new group				without a male	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Eventuality

Option 4

She could fly back to her old island to find a husband and lay eggs there

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 island	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 island	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 island	amod
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 husband	det
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
14	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	conj
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lay	obj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly back	could	She			to her old island result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to island=Result
2	find	to-infinitive	She not said here	a husband			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic
3	lay	present	She not said here	eggs	there		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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