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Test 11 · ★ · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…

In Rango, a chameleon walks into a desert town looking for water. Why is water the main worry in a desert?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: chameleon, desert town · What happens: walk, look, be · To what, where: Rango, water

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 182 «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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

Sentence 1: In Rango, a chameleon walks into a desert town looking for water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Rango	case
2	Rango	Rango	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 walks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Rango	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chameleon	det
5	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walks	nsubj
6	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 town	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 town	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 town	compound
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walks	obl
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 town	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a chameleon			Rango		into a desert town result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=Result
2	look	gerund	a desert town not said here					for water	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for water=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.

Sentence 2: Why is water the main worry in a desert?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 water	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 water	cop
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worry	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 worry	det
5	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worry	amod
6	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 desert	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 desert	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worry	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 worry	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Animals in deserts never drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 deserts	case
3	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Animals	nmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 drink	advmod
5	drink	drink	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 drink	present	Animals in deserts						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Deserts are always flooded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flooded	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flooded	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 flooded	advmod
4	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	present · passive		Deserts				always property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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

Very little rain falls, so water is the hardest thing to find

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 little	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rain	amod
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falls	nsubj
4	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 thing	advmod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falls	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	little rain						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	water	the hardest thing					tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	little rain not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The sand is full of rivers running under it, so water is easy to find

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sand	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rivers	acl
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 running	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 easy	advmod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 easy	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 easy	cop
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 full	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sand					of rivers; full property	tree rules
2	run	gerund	rivers not said here			sand			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Trajectory
3	is	present	water					easy property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	water not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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