Test 9 · ★ · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…

Why might a desert animal hide in a burrow by day and come out at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: desert animal · What happens: hide, come out · To what, where: burrow

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hide	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hide	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animal	compound
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	nsubj
6	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 burrow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 burrow	det
9	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hide	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	might	a desert animal			a burrow	day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location
2	come out	present	a desert animal not said here				night	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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

It is much cooler at night, so it loses less water

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	4 cooler	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cooler	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 cooler	advmod
4	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooler	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loses	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 loses	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loses	nsubj
10	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cooler	parataxis
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				night	cool property	tree rules
2	lose	present	it	less water					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality

Option 2

Food only grows at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grows	advmod
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Food				night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is afraid of the moon

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 afraid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of the moon; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

It cannot see in daylight because the sun is far too bright for its eyes

The tree, 16 words

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	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 daylight	case
6	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 bright	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bright	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bright	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 bright	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 bright	advmod
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bright	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	It			daylight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the sun					for sun's eyes; bright, far property	tree rules

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