Test 9 · The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils…

Why might a desert frog wait underground for years?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: desert frog · What happens: wait

This is test 9 of lesson 165 «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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	5 frog	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 frog	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frog	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frog	compound
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	nsubj
6	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	underground	underground	ADV	_	6 wait	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wait	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	a desert frog				year	underground property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Because it cannot find the way up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 find	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	5 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find up	can	it	the way					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To survive dry years until rain makes pools to breed in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 survive	mark
2	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 makes	advcl
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 survive	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 makes	mark
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 makes	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 breed	mark
10	breed	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 makes	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 breed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	survive	to-infinitive	rain not said here		year	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	rain	pools		tree rules
3	breed	to-infinitive	pools not said here			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because it is scared of kangaroos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 kangaroos	case
6	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					of kangaroos; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

Because it is hibernating from the snow, like a bear in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 hibernating	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hibernating	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernating	aux
4	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hibernating	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bear	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 bear	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hibernating	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 winter	case
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	present · progressive	it			the snow		like a bear in winter	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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