Test 8 · The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees an…

Why would a hedgehog wake up thin in spring?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: wake up

This is test 8 of lesson 333 «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hedgehog	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hedgehog	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hedgehog	det
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	nsubj
5	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wake	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spring	case
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thin	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	a hedgehog					thin property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

It ran about all winter in the snow looking for slugs

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 winter	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 winter	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 slugs	case
11	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	It			the snow	winter		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Trajectory
2	look	gerund						for slugs	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for slug=Theme

Option 2

Hedgehogs always lose weight in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 lose	advmod
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Hedgehogs	weight		the sun		always property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It lived for months on its stored fat without eating

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 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 months	case
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 fat	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fat	nmod:poss
7	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fat	amod
8	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lived	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	live	past	It	its stored fat	month	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location
2	store	participle				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It gave all its food to frogs

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 food	det:predet
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 frogs	case
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	It	its food	frogs				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to frog=Recipient

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