Test 2 · ★★★ · Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and…

«in Happy Feet the penguins tap dance to sing a heart song, do they really» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penguins · What happens: tap, sing, be · To what, where: dance, Happy Feet, heart song

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	_	7 tap	punct
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Feet	case
3	Happy	Happy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Feet	flat
4	Feet	Feet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tap	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 penguins	det
6	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tap	nsubj
7	tap	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tap	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sing	mark
10	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tap	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 song	det
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 song	compound
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 right	punct
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 right	nsubj
17	really	really	ADV	_	21 right	advmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 really	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	7 tap	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tap in a quote	present	the penguins	dance	Happy Feet		tree rules
2	sing speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	the penguins not said here	a heart song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	is	present · do-support	penguins = penguin			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

Yes, they sing pop songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 songs	compound
6	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	they	pop songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, emperor penguins know each other by their calls, not by dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 penguins	compound
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 know	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 calls	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 calls	nmod:poss
10	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dancing	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 dancing	advmod
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 dancing	mark
14	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 know	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	emperor penguins	each	by penguins's calls	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	not dance	gerund	emperor penguins not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call		penguins = penguin			nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yes, every penguin tap dances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dances	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 penguin	det
4	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tap	compound
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dances	compound
6	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No, penguins make no sounds at all, they find each other by their smell

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sounds	det
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 make	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	conj
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 find	obj
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 smell	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 smell	nmod:poss
16	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	penguins	no sounds	all		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product
2	find	present	penguins = penguin	each		by penguins's smell	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic
3	smell		penguins = penguin				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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