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Test 8 · Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other ne…

A haystack hangs in a desert tree in the Kalahari. Who lives there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: haystack · What happens: hang, live · To what, where: desert tree

This is test 8 of lesson 243 «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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

Sentence 1: A haystack hangs in a desert tree in the Kalahari.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 haystack	det
2	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangs	nsubj
3	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangs	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Kalahari	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Kalahari	det
10	Kalahari	Kalahari	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tree	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hangs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	a haystack			a desert tree in the Kalahari			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=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.

Sentence 2: Who lives there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lives	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present				there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nobody, because farmers store their hay up there for the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 store	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 store	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 store	mark
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 store	nsubj
5	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hay	nmod:poss
7	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 store	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 store	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 winter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 winter	det
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	Nobody	farmers's hay		there	winter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme

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

Over a hundred sociable weavers in separate rooms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	5 weavers	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 weavers	nummod
4	sociable	sociable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weavers	amod
5	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 rooms	case
7	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rooms	amod
8	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weavers	nmod

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

Option 3

A single huge eagle and its chick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 eagle	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eagle	amod
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eagle	amod
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chick	cc
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chick	nmod:poss
7	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eagle	conj

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

Option 4

A family of monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 monkeys	case
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 family	nmod

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

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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