Test 7 · ★ · The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and…
Builders dig into frozen ground in Siberia and find a hairy elephant-like animal. What is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Builders · What happens: dig, freeze, find, be · To what, where: frozen ground, hairy like animal, animal
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 168 «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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
Sentence 1: Builders dig into frozen ground in Siberia and find a hairy elephant-like animal.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ground | amod |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dig | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Siberia | case |
| 7 | Siberia | Siberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dig | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dig | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 11 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animal | amod |
| 12 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 elephant | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animal | amod |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dig | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | Builders | frozen ground | in Siberia | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in siberia=Location | |||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | Builders not said here | a hairy like animal | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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.
Sentence 2: What is it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | animal | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A musk ox frozen in the ice of the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ox | det |
| 2 | musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ox | compound |
| 3 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ox | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frozen | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ice | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | a musk ox not said here | the ice of the sea | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A woolly mammoth kept in the permafrost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mammoth | det |
| 2 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mammoth | amod |
| 3 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mammoth | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 permafrost | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 permafrost | det |
| 7 | permafrost | permafrost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle | a woolly mammoth not said here | the permafrost | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in permafrost=Location |
Option 3
A circus elephant with fur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | circus | circus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 fur | case |
| 5 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elephant | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A walrus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 walrus | det |
| 2 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/t7/