Test 6 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals

«camels store water in the hump, everybody knows that» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: camels, everybody, best correction · What happens: store, know, be · To what, where: water, hump, that

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 298 «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and 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	_	3 store	punct
2	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 store	nsubj
3	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 store	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hump	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hump	det
7	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 store	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
9	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 store	conj
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 knows	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 knows	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 correction	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 correction	amod
17	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 store	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	store in a quote	present	camels	water	the hump	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in hump=Location
2	know in a quote	present	everybody	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	is a	present	the best correction			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 hump stores sand

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

#	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

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

The hump stores fat; camels save water by losing very little

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	_	7 save	punct
6	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 save	nsubj
7	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stores	parataxis
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	obj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 losing	mark
10	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 save	advcl
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 losing	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	save	present	camels	water	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	lose	gerund	camels not said here	little	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality

Option 3

Right, the hump is a water tank that sloshes as it walks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	8 tank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hump	det
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	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sloshes	nsubj
10	sloshes	slosh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tank	acl:relcl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 walks	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walks	nsubj
13	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sloshes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the hump	a water tank	tree rules
2	slosh	present	a water tank		vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	walk	present	hump		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The hump is full of air for floating

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
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 floating	mark
8	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 full	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hump					of air; full property	tree rules
2	float	gerund	the hump not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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