Test 8 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…

Why would a robin need a territory in winter?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: robin · What happens: need · To what, where: territory

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	5 need	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 robin	det
4	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 territory	det
7	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

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

To hide from swallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 swallows	case
4	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive				swallows			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from swallow=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To keep a patch with enough food for itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 patch	det
4	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		a patch				with enough food; for food	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Theme

Option 3

To stop squirrels hibernating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		squirrels					tree rules
2	hibernate	gerund							vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 4

To keep a nest warm for eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		a nest				for eggs; warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme

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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