Test 12 · ★★★ · Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping…

Why would an elephant never be as strong for its size as a beetle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: elephant · What happens: not be

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 365 «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» 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	8 strong	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 strong	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strong	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 strong	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 strong	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 strong	advmod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 size	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 size	nmod:poss
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strong	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 beetle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 beetle	det
14	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 size	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 strong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	a elephant					for elephant's size as a beetle; strong 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

Elephants are lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lazy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Elephants					lazy property	tree rules

Option 2

Elephants have weaker bones than beetles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 beetles	case
6	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Elephants	weaker bones				than beetles	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its huge weight grows faster than its muscle strength

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 weight	nmod:poss
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weight	amod
3	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grows	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 strength	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 strength	nmod:poss
8	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strength	compound
9	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Its huge weight					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Elephants never use their muscles, so they get weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 muscles	nmod:poss
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	conj
10	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	present	Elephants	Elephants's muscles					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient
2	get	present	Elephants = elephant					weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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