Test 10 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

Why might a condor choose to fly in the warm middle of the day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: condor · What happens: choose, fly · To what, where: warm middle

This is test 10 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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	5 choose	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 choose	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 condor	det
4	condor	condor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choose	nsubj
5	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 choose	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 middle	amod
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 middle	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	might	a condor						tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	a condor not said here			the warm middle of the day			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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

Rising warm air lets it glide without flapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lets	csubj
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rising	obj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lets	obj
6	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lets	xcomp
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 flapping	mark
8	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 glide	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rise	gerund		warm air	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme
2	let	present	Rising	air	tree rules
3	glide	infinitive	air not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flap	gerund	air not said here		vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Insects are easier to catch then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 easier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 catch	mark
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	xcomp
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Insects					easy property	tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive	Insects not said here				then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It cannot see anything in the early morning

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	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 see	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 morning	amod
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	It	anything			morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

The wind stops at midday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midday	case
5	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the wind			midday			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location

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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