Test 10 · Bears

Why are pandas busy eating for up to 14 hours a day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, eat

This is test 10 of lesson 23 «Bears» 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	4 busy	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 busy	obl:unmarked
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 busy	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 hours	case
7	up	up	ADV	_	9 14	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 14	case
9	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eating	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hours	nmod:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 busy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						pandas obl:unmarked; busy property	tree rules
2	eat	gerund					hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They eat slowly because they have no teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 eat	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 teeth	det
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They					slowly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	they	no teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bamboo gives them very little energy, so they need loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 energy	amod
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 need	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gives	conj
11	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Bamboo	little energy	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient energy=Theme
2	need	present	they	loads					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot load=Theme

Option 3

They only eat in the dark, when it is cooler and they feel safer

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cooler	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 cooler	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cooler	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cooler	cop
11	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 eat	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feel	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feel	nsubj
14	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
15	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	the dark		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	dark		cool property	tree rules
3	feel	present	they		safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

They are storing it in their cheeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 storing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 storing	aux
3	storing	store	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 storing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cheeks	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cheeks	nmod:poss
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 storing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present · progressive	They	it		their cheeks			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cheek=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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