Test 6 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…

«why bother putting water out, it's freezing, they've got snow» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bother, water, they · What happens: put out, freeze, get, be · To what, where: water, snow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 putting	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 putting	advmod
3	bother	bother	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 putting	nsubj
4	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 putting	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 putting	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 freezing	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 freezing	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 freezing	aux
10	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 putting	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
13	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 got	aux
14	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 freezing	ccomp
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 got	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 putting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put out in a quote	gerund	bother	water		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent water=Goal
2	freeze in a quote	present · progressive	water			tree rules
3	get in a quote	present · perfect	they	snow		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus
4	is	present			true property	tree rules

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

Birds can only drink warm milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drink	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 drink	advmod
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 milk	amod
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	can	Birds	warm milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

Option 2

Birds never drink in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 drink	advmod
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	present	Birds				winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Water is as important as food when everything is frozen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 important	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 important	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 important	advmod
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 important	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 frozen	advmod
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 frozen	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 frozen	aux:pass
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 important	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Water					as food; important property	tree rules
2	freeze	present · passive		everything					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Snow is better than water for birds, because it melts slowly in the beak

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 better	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 melts	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 melts	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 melts	nsubj
11	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	conj
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 melts	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 beak	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beak	det
15	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Snow					than water; for birds; good property	tree rules
2	melt	present	Snow			the beak		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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