Test 2 · ★ · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…

«camel humps r full of water, everyone knows that» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: know, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 r	punct
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 humps	compound
3	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 r	nsubj
4	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 r	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 r	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 knows	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knows	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 r	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	everyone	that					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	is	present						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 fill them from rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fill	nsubj
4	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fill	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 rivers	case
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	they	them = they		rivers			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

No, the humps are full of air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 humps	det
4	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the humps					of air; full property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the humps store fat; camels save water in many other ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 store	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 humps	det
4	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 store	nsubj
5	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 store	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
8	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 save	nsubj
9	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 store	conj
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 ways	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ways	amod
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ways	amod
14	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	the humps	fat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
2	save	present	camels	water		many other ways			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

Yes, each hump is a water tank that they fill when they drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 tank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hump	det
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tank	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tank	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	compound
8	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fill	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fill	nsubj
11	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tank	acl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 drink	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drink	nsubj
14	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	each hump	a water tank	tree rules
2	fill	present	they	a water tank not said here	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tank=Patient
3	drink	present	they		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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