Test 10 · ★★★ · Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and…

«albatross glided all day n never flapped, it must be exhausted» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: albatross · What happens: glide, not flap, exhaust, be · To what, where: day, albatross · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 170 «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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	_	3 glided	punct
2	albatross	albatross	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glided	nsubj
3	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glided	obl:unmarked
6	n	not	ADV	_	8 flapped	advmod
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 flapped	advmod
8	flapped	flap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 day	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 exhausted	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 exhausted	nsubj:pass
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 exhausted	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 exhausted	aux:pass
13	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 glided	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 exhausted	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 exhausted	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 glided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	glide in a quote	past	albatross		day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not flap in a quote	participle		all day not said here			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	exhaust in a quote	must · passive		albatross			tree rules
4	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it locks its wings and gliding uses almost no energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 locks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 locks	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 locks	nsubj
4	locks	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wings	nmod:poss
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 locks	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 uses	cc
8	gliding	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 uses	nsubj
9	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 locks	conj
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 energy	advmod
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 energy	det
12	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lock	present	it	its wings	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	glide	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	present		no energy	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

Option 2

Yes, it will soon get tired and drop down into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drop	cc
9	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 drop	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	it					soon, tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	drop down	present				the sea			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sea=Trajectory

Option 3

Yes, gliding is much harder work than flapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 work	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	gliding	gliding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 work	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 flapping	mark
9	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	gliding	harder work					tree rules
2	flap	gerund	gliding not said here						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, albatrosses do not fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	albatrosses	albatrosse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fly	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fly	advmod
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	present · do-support	albatrosses						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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