Test 9 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

How could a swift sleep while flying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swift sleep · What happens: fly

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 flying	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 flying	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sleep	det
4	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	amod
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flying	nsubj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 flying	mark
7	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 flying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	could	a swift sleep						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

It never sleeps at all

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	3 sleeps	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 sleeps	advmod
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	present	It			all			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It lands on a soft cloud and sleeps there for a few hours

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 lands	nsubj
2	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloud	amod
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lands	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleeps	cc
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lands	conj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sleeps	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 hours	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hours	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hours	amod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present	It			a soft cloud			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on cloud=Destination
2	sleep	present				there	hour		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It sleeps in short naps high in the air while gliding

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 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 naps	case
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 naps	amod
5	naps	nap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleeps	obl
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 naps	amod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 gliding	mark
11	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sleeps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	It			short naps			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in nap=Location
2	glide	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It sleeps standing on a roof

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 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sleeps	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	It						tree rules
2	stand	gerund				a roof			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location

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