Test 12 · ★★★ · Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and…

«a Weddell seal lives under the ice, so how does it breathe, stupid seal» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Weddell seal, seal, stupid seal · What happens: live, breathe, be · To what, where: ice, stupid seal

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	_	5 lives	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seal	det
3	Weddell	Weddell	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seal	compound
4	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 ice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ice	det
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 breathe	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 breathe	advmod
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 breathe	advmod
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 breathe	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 breathe	nsubj
14	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lives	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seal	punct
16	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seal	amod
17	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 breathe	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 seal	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seal	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	a Weddell seal		the ice		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ice=Location
2	breathe in a quote	present · do-support	seal	stupid seal			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme
3	is	present	stupid seal			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

It keeps breathing holes open in the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 holes	amod
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ice	det
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	breathing holes		the ice		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in ice=Location
2	breathe	gerund							vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It never needs air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needs	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 needs	advmod
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	It	air					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme

Option 3

It breathes water like a fish under the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breathes	nsubj
2	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathes	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 fish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathes	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 ice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	It	water		the ice		like a fish	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

It breathes through a straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breathes	nsubj
2	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 straw	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 straw	det
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	It			a straw			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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