Test 12 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

«why do walruses have whiskers, they're not cats lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: walruses · What happens: have, not be, be · To what, where: whiskers, cats

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	walruses	walrus	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cats	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cats	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cats	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cats	advmod
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 whiskers	conj
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present · do-support	walruses	whiskers and cats		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient
2	not is a in a quote	present	walruses = walrus	cats		tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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 keep their noses warm in the freezing water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 noses	nmod:poss
4	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
8	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		their noses		the freezing water		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nose=Theme in water=Location

Option 2

To scare off polar bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt
4	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bears	amod
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	to-infinitive		polar bears					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bear=Experiencer

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

They feel for clams on the dark seabed

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 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 clams	case
4	clams	clam	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feel	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 seabed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seabed	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seabed	amod
8	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	They			the dark seabed		for clams	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for clam=Theme on seabed=Location

Option 4

To look like cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 cats	case
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						like cats	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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