Test 9 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

«a panda eats bamboo all day, what a lazy fatso» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: panda, day, lazy fatso · What happens: eat, fatso, be · To what, where: bamboo

This is test 9 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 eats	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 panda	det
3	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fatso	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 fatso	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fatso	det
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fatso	amod
12	fatso	fatso	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 fatso	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fatso	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	a panda	bamboo	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient
2	fatso in a quote		all day				tree rules
3	is	present	a lazy fatso			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

Pandas eat all day because bamboo is too tasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl:unmarked
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 tasty	mark
6	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tasty	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tasty	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 tasty	advmod
9	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Pandas				day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	bamboo					tasty property	tree rules

Option 2

Pandas also hunt yaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 hunt	advmod
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yaks	yak	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Pandas	yaks					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yak=Theme

Option 3

Pandas eat little and sleep the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sleep	cc
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Pandas	little					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
2	sleep	present	Pandas not said here	the rest					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bamboo has so little energy that pandas must eat for many hours to get enough

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 energy	amod
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 eat	nsubj
7	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 energy	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 hours	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hours	amod
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	advcl
15	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	Bamboo	little energy		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
2	eat	must	little energy		hour	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	to-infinitive	little energy not said here	enough		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus

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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