Test 7 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…

«why do they need a new bed every night, lazy to clean or what» Which reason fits best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, reason · What happens: need, clean, fit · To what, where: new bed

This is test 7 of lesson 161 «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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	_	5 need	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 need	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bed	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bed	amod
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lazy	punct
12	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 need	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 clean	mark
14	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lazy	advcl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 clean	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
18	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 reason	det
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fits	nsubj
20	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
21	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 fits	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present · do-support	they	a new bed	night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bed=Theme
2	clean in a quote	to-infinitive	they not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fit	present	which reason			well property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

They eat their beds for breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beds	nmod:poss
4	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 breakfast	case
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	their beds				for breakfast	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient

Option 2

They are scared of their old beds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 beds	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beds	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beds	amod
7	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of their old beds; scared property	tree rules

Option 3

Their beds always fall down by the morning, so they need new ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 beds	nmod:poss
2	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	conj
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	present	Their beds				morning	always property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	beds = bed	new ones					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They move around to find food, so they sleep where they end up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADV	_	2 move	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 move	advcl
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sleep	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 sleep	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nsubj
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 move	conj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 end	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 end	nsubj
13	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleep	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 end	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move around	present	They		around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	They not said here	food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	sleep	present	they			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	end up	present	they			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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