Test 4 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…
In a cartoon a gopher pops up from its hole, chats all winter and never sleeps. What is right for a steppe marmot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gopher · What happens: pop up, not sleep, be · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 4 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon a gopher pops up from its hole, chats all winter and never sleeps.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pops | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gopher | det |
| 5 | gopher | gopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pops | nsubj |
| 6 | pops | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pops | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hole | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pops | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chats | punct |
| 12 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hole | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 winter | det |
| 14 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pops | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sleeps | cc |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 sleeps | advmod |
| 17 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pops | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop up | present | a gopher | a cartoon | winter | from gopher's hole and chats | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | ||
| 2 | not sleep | present | a gopher not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What is right for a steppe marmot?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 marmot | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 marmot | det |
| 6 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marmot | compound |
| 7 | marmot | marmot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for a steppe marmot; right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It sleeps through the winter for about half the year
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 sleeps | nsubj |
| 2 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 winter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 winter | det |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleeps | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 half | advmod |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 year | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleeps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | It | winter; year | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It flies south for the winter
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 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | south | south | ADV | _ | 2 flies | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 winter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 winter | det |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | It | winter | south property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It stays awake and eats all winter long under the snow
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 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stays | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eats | cc |
| 5 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stays | conj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 winter | det |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eats | obj |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 eats | advmod |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 snow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snow | det |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eats | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | It | awake property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | the snow | winter | long property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It sleeps only on Sundays
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 sleeps | nsubj |
| 2 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 Sundays | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Sundays | case |
| 5 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 sleeps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | It | sunday | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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