Test 11 · Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges

What does a beaver keep underwater near the lodge in autumn?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beaver · What happens: keep · To what, where: lodge

This is test 11 of lesson 242 «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 keep	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beaver	det
4	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	underwater	underwater	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 lodge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lodge	det
9	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 autumn	case
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lodge	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	a beaver			the lodge in autumn		underwater property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme near lodge=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 · ✓ the right answer

A pile of branches to eat in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 branches	case
4	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pile	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive					winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Its old teeth

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	3 teeth	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Fish to eat in the spring, kept fresh in the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	nsubj:pass
2	to	to	PART	_	3 eat	mark
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fish	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 spring	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kept	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cold	det
12	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive		Fish not said here			spring		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	participle · passive		Fish		the cold		fresh property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cold=Location

Option 4

A pile of stones that it uses for building

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 stones	case
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 uses	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 uses	nsubj
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pile	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 building	case
9	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	pile	a pile of stones				for building	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Theme for building=Eventuality

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