Test 5 · Bears

If a zoo polar bear's fur turned green, what is the likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fur · What happens: turn, be · To what, where: likely reason

This is test 5 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 polar	compound
4	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bear	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fur	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bear	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 reason	advcl
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turned	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 reason	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 reason	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reason	det
14	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 reason	amod
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn a condition, not said to happen	past	a polar bear's fur					green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the likely reason					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

Its skin changed colour from the terrible cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
7	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cold	amod
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	participle	Its skin	colour		the terrible cold			vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent colour=Patient from cold=Initial_State

Option 2

It ate too much spinach

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spinach	amod
5	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It	much spinach					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinach=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tiny algae grew inside its hollow hairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 algae	amod
2	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 hairs	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hairs	nmod:poss
6	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hairs	amod
7	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Tiny algae			its hollow hairs			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside hair=Location

Option 4

Someone painted it as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 painted	nsubj
2	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 painted	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 joke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	Someone	it				as a joke	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as joke=Attribute

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