Test 5 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

«marmot's just lazy, sleeps half the year lol» Why is it really sleeping?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: marmot · What happens: sleep

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 lazy	punct
2	marmot	marmot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lazy	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 marmot	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 lazy	advmod
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sleeps	punct
7	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	conj
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	7 sleeps	obl:unmarked
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 sleeps	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 sleeps	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 sleeping	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sleeping	aux
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sleeping	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 sleeping	advmod
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sleeps	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	present					year		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	present · progressive	marmot						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.

The options

Option 1

It is too fat to walk, so it stays in bed until the fat melts

The tree, 15 words

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	4 fat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fat	advmod
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fat	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stays	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 stays	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stays	nsubj
10	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stays	obl
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 melts	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fat	det
15	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 melts	nsubj
16	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stays	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		fat property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	present	it	bed		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location
4	melt	present	the fat			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Marmots are sick in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marmots	marmot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sick	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sick	obl

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

Option 3

Marmots hate snow and sulk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marmots	marmot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sulk	cc
5	sulk	sulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Marmots	snow and sulk					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

There is no food in winter, so it saves energy by sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saves	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 saves	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saves	nsubj
10	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
11	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saves	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 sleeping	mark
13	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	present	no food		there	winter	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	present	food	energy			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	sleep	gerund	food not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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