Test 1 · ★★ · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

«camel's hump is a water tank, that's how it crosses the desert» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hump, that, desert · What happens: be · To what, where: water tank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 tank	punct
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hump	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 camel	case
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tank	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tank	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	compound
8	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crosses	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tank	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 crosses	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crosses	cop
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 crosses	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crosses	nsubj
14	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 desert	det
16	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crosses	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 desert	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 desert	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 crosses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	camel's hump	a water tank		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	that		cross property	tree rules
3	is	present	the desert		right 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

Yes, the hump is full of water that sloshes about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hump	det
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sloshes	nsubj
10	sloshes	slosh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 water	acl:relcl
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 sloshes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hump					of water; full property	tree rules
2	slosh	present	water					about property	vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

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

The hump stores fat; a camel drinks a lot when it finds water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hump	det
2	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stores	nsubj
3	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stores	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 drinks	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 camel	det
7	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drinks	nsubj
8	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stores	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lot	det
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drinks	obj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 finds	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finds	nsubj
13	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drinks	advcl
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	store	present	the hump	fat	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
2	drink	present	a camel	a lot	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
3	find	present	camel	water	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic

Option 3

The hump is full of air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hump	det
2	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hump					of air; full property	tree rules

Option 4

The hump stores sand to keep the camel heavy in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hump	det
2	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stores	nsubj
3	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stores	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stores	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camel	det
8	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wind	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	the hump	sand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	the hump not said here	the camel		the wind		heavy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent camel=Theme in wind=Location

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