Test 6 · ★★★ · Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and…

«biggest land animal living in Antarctica all year is the penguin, obvs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: biggest land animal, penguin · What happens: live, be · To what, where: Antarctica, penguin

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 animal	punct
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 animal	amod
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animal	compound
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 penguin	nsubj
5	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 animal	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Antarctica	case
7	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 living	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 living	obl:unmarked
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 penguin	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 penguin	det
12	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obvs	punct
14	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 penguin	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 obvs	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 penguin	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 penguin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	gerund	biggest land animal not said here		Antarctica	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location
2	is a in a quote	present	biggest land animal	the penguin				tree rules
3	is	present	the 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

Yes, the emperor penguin, the biggest of them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 penguin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 penguin	det
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 penguin	compound
5	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 biggest	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 biggest	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 biggest	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 biggest	nmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

No, it is the polar bear, which lives there too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 bear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bear	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
6	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	amod
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lives	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lives	nsubj
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	acl:relcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 lives	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	10 lives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the polar bear					tree rules
2	live	present	the polar bear			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, it is a tiny wingless midge, because penguins feed at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 midge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 midge	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 midge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 midge	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 midge	amod
7	wingless	wingless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 midge	amod
8	midge	midge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feed	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 feed	mark
11	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feed	nsubj
12	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 midge	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 sea	case
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a tiny wingless midge					tree rules
2	feed	present	penguins			sea			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, it is the walrus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 walrus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walrus	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 walrus	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walrus	det
6	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the walrus					tree rules

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