Test 11 · Crocodiles and alligators

During a drought, why are gator holes good for other animals?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: gator holes · What happens: be

This is test 11 of lesson 29 «Crocodiles and alligators» 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 drought	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drought	det
3	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 good	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drought	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 good	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 good	cop
7	gator	gator	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holes	compound
8	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 good	nsubj
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 animals	case
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 good	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	gator holes				during a drought	for other animals; good property	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

The alligators share their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 alligators	det
2	alligators	alligator	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 share	nsubj
3	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	the alligators	alligators's food					tree rules

Option 2

The holes are full of fruit that falls from the trees around them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 holes	det
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fruit	case
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fruit	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 falls	obl
12	around	around	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trees	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the holes					of fruit; full property	tree rules
2	fall	present	fruit			the trees around holes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location

Option 3

Alligators leave in droughts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alligators	alligator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 droughts	case
4	droughts	drought	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Alligators					in droughts result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in drought=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The holes the alligators dig keep water when everything else dries out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 holes	det
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dig	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 alligators	det
4	alligators	alligator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 holes	conj
5	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dig	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 dries	mark
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 dries	nsubj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 everything	advmod
11	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dig	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 dries	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dig	present	the holes and the alligators	keep water	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	keep	infinitive			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	dry out	present	everything		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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