Test 9 · The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, drago…

Which feet would be best for both swimming and walking?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feet · What happens: be

This is test 9 of lesson 337 «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 feet	det
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swimming	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swimming	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 swimming	cop
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 be	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 swimming	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 swimming	det
8	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walking	cc
10	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swimming	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 swimming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	which feet					for both swimming and walking	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 · ✓ the right answer

Toes with lobes that spread to swim and fold to walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 lobes	case
3	lobes	lobe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Toes	nmod
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 spread	nsubj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lobes	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 swim	mark
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spread	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fold	cc
9	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swim	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 walk	mark
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fold	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	spread	present	lobes	tree rules
2	swim	to-infinitive	lobes not said here	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fold	infinitive	lobes not said here	tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	lobes not said here	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Toes with sticky pads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 pads	case
3	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pads	amod
4	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Toes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Webbed feet with no separate toes at all, like a flipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Webbed	obl:unmarked
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 toes	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 toes	det
5	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toes	amod
6	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Webbed	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 toes	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flipper	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 flipper	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 flipper	det
12	flipper	flipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Webbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	web	participle		feet				with no separate toes at all; like a flipper	tree rules

Option 4

Hooves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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