Test 11 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

Why does a harp seal pup need milk that is about half fat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: seal pup, milk · What happens: need, be · To what, where: milk, half fat

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 169 «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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	7 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pup	det
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seal	compound
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pup	compound
6	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fat	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fat	cop
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 half	advmod
12	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 fat	amod
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 milk	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	a seal pup	milk					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot milk=Theme
2	is a	present	milk	half fat					tree rules

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

To make its fur white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fur	nmod:poss
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		its fur				white property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fur=Product

Option 2

To stop it from growing too big for the den

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 growing	mark
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 growing	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 den	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 den	det
10	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		it					tree rules
2	grow	gerund						big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To grow fast and build blubber before it must swim in icy water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grow	mark
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grow	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 build	cc
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
6	blubber	blubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 swim	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swim	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 swim	aux
10	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 build	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	to-infinitive				fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build	present		blubber			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blubber=Product
3	swim	must	blubber		icy water		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

Option 4

Because seals cannot drink water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 drink	mark
2	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 drink	advmod
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	can	seals	water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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