Test 9 · The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees an…

Why would a nest need mud as well as grass?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nest · What happens: need · To what, where: mud

This is test 9 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	5 need	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	10 grass	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	as	as	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	a nest	mud					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mud=Theme

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

Mud keeps the eggs cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eggs	det
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Mud	the eggs				cold property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mud holds the grass together like glue and makes the cup strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 holds	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 glue	case
7	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 makes	cc
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 holds	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cup	det
11	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Mud	the grass				like glue; together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
2	make	present	Mud not said here	the cup				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cup=Product

Option 3

Mud is food for the chicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 food	cop
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 chicks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chicks	det
6	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Mud food				for the chicks	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mud makes the nest invisible at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Mud	the nest			night	invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

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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