Test 4 · ★★★ · Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and…

«an adélie keeps nicking stones off his mate next door, what a crook» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: adélie, next door, crook · What happens: keep, nick, be · To what, where: next door, stones, mate

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	_	4 keeps	punct
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adélie	det
3	adélie	adélie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nicking	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nicking	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 mate	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mate	nmod:poss
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicking	obl
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 door	amod
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crook	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 crook	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crook	det
15	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	appos
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 crook	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crook	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	a adélie	next door			tree rules
2	nick in a quote	gerund	next door not said here	stones	adélie's mate		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Theme off mate=Source
3	is	present	a crook			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

Stealing stones is common, because good stones keep eggs above meltwater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 common	csubj
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stealing	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 common	cop
4	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 keep	mark
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 common	conj
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
11	above	above	ADP	_	12 meltwater	case
12	meltwater	meltwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		stones			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme
2	is	present	Stealing			common property	tree rules
3	keep	present	good stones	eggs	meltwater		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme above meltwater=Location

Option 2

He is building a road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 building	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 building	aux
3	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · progressive	He	a road					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Product

Option 3

He is collecting stones to sell to the other penguins in exchange for fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 collecting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 collecting	aux
3	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 collecting	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 collecting	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 penguins	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 penguins	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 penguins	amod
10	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sell	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 exchange	case
12	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sell	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 fish	case
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exchange	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	present · progressive	He	stones					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	sell	to-infinitive	He not said here		the other penguins	exchange for fish			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to penguin=Recipient

Option 4

Penguins never steal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steal	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 steal	advmod
3	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not steal	present	Penguins						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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