Test 10 · ★★ · The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finc…

In a hard year with little food, how can a marine iguana survive?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: marine iguana · What happens: survive

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 180 «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 survive	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 year	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 survive	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 survive	advmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 survive	aux
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 iguana	det
12	marine	marine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 iguana	amod
13	iguana	iguana	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 survive	nsubj
14	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	can	a marine iguana				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It eats rocks

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	rocks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient

Option 2

It grows extra legs

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It	extra legs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme

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

It can shrink its body, even its bones

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 shrink	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shrink	aux
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 body	nmod:poss
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrink	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bones	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 bones	advmod
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod:poss
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 body	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	can	It	its body and its bones					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient

Option 4

It flies off to another island where there is food

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 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flies	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 is	advmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 island	acl:relcl
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	It					to another island result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to island=Result
2	be	present	food			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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