Test 11 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest

«hummingbird heart beats once a minute, its so tiny» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hummingbird heart · What happens: beat, be

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 185 «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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	_	3 heart	punct
2	hummingbird	hummingbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	compound
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beats	nsubj
4	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 beats	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 minute	det
7	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tiny	punct
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tiny	nmod:poss
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 tiny	advmod
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beats	advcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 tiny	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	11 tiny	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 beats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat in a quote	present	hummingbird heart					once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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

It has no heart

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 heart	det
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 2

It beats only once an hour, so it saves its energy

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	2 beats	nsubj
2	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 beats	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saves	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 saves	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saves	nsubj
10	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 beats	parataxis
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 energy	nmod:poss
12	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	It					once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	present	it	its energy					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It has the fastest heartbeat of any bird

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heartbeat	det
4	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 heartbeat	amod
5	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heartbeat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	the fastest heartbeat of any bird					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartbeat=Patient

Option 4

Right, very slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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