Test 5 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…

Why does slowing down the body save energy for a hedgehog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: slow down, save · To what, where: energy

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 336 «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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	3 slowing	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slowing	aux
3	slowing	slow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 save	nsubj
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 slowing	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	nsubj
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hedgehog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hedgehog	det
11	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	present · do-support							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	save	infinitive		energy				for a hedgehog	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent energy=Theme for hedgehog=Beneficiary

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

Cold bodies need more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bodies	amod
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Cold bodies	more food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A slow heart and cool body burn much less fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heart	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 body	cc
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	conj
7	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 less	advmod
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 fat	amod
10	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	a slow heart and cool body	less fat					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fat=Theme

Option 3

It saves water, not energy

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 saves	nsubj
2	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 energy	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 energy	advmod
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	It	water and energy					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

A slow heart makes more fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heart	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fat	amod
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a slow heart	more fat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fat=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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