Test 7 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

«grasshoppers going mad today, it's boiling» Why would they chirp faster?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grasshoppers, it · What happens: go, boil, chirp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 going	punct
2	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	nsubj
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 going	xcomp
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boiling	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boiling	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 boiling	aux
9	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 going	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 boiling	punct
11	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 chirp	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 chirp	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chirp	nsubj
14	chirp	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 boiling	parataxis
15	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 chirp	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	gerund	grasshoppers	today	mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	boil in a quote	present · progressive	it			tree rules
3	chirp	would	grasshoppers = grasshopper		fast property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They are shouting for water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shouting	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shouting	aux
3	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present · progressive	They					for water	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Heat makes their legs longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Heat	their legs					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Grasshoppers chirp faster when it is warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chirp	nsubj
2	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 chirp	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 warmer	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 warmer	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 warmer	cop
7	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 chirp	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	present	Grasshoppers					fast property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					warm property	tree rules

Option 4

They chirp faster when it is cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chirp	nsubj
2	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 chirp	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 cold	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cold	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chirp	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	present	They					fast property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					cold property	tree rules

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