Test 5 · The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and ot…

How can the biggest animal ever live on some of the smallest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: live · To what, where: biggest animal, some

This is test 5 of lesson 259 «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 animal	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 animal	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 live	advmod
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 some	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 live	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 smallest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 smallest	det
12	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 some	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present		the biggest animal		some	ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on some=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

It gulps huge amounts of tiny krill, several tonnes a day

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 gulps	nsubj
2	gulps	gulp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 amounts	amod
4	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gulps	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 krill	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 krill	amod
7	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 amounts	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gulps	punct
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tonnes	amod
10	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gulps	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gulps	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gulp	present	It	huge amounts of tiny krill			day		tree rules
2	amount			tiny krill					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It eats only one krill a week

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 krill	nummod
5	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

It eats the krill's eggs, which are huge, as big as footballs

The tree, 13 words

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 krill	det
4	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eggs	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 krill	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 huge	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 huge	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 huge	cop
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eggs	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 big	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 big	advmod
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eats	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 footballs	case
15	footballs	football	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	the krill's eggs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
2	is	present	the krill's eggs					huge property	tree rules

Option 4

It does not eat at all, it just drinks water

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	4 eat	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drinks	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drinks	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 drinks	advmod
10	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	conj
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drinks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	It			all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	present	it	water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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