Test 6 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

Why does a fat marmot sleep through winter better than a thin one?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: fat marmot sleep

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sleep	det
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sleep	amod
5	marmot	marmot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	compound
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 does	parataxis
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 one	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a fat marmot sleep			winter		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Eventuality

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

Fat marmots sleep less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marmots	amod
2	marmots	marmot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Fat marmots					less property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It has more stored fat to live on until spring

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 fat	amod
4	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fat	amod
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fat	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 live	obl
9	until	until	ADP	_	10 spring	case
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	It	more stored fat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient
2	store	participle				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	live on	to-infinitive		more stored fat not said here	spring	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fat marmots eat in their sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marmots	amod
2	marmots	marmot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nmod:poss
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Fat marmots			marmots's sleep			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep		marmots = marmot						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Thin marmots wake up warmer and stronger in the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marmots	amod
2	marmots	marmot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wake	nsubj
3	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 wake	compound:prt
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 wake	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stronger	cc
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 warmer	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 spring	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spring	det
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	Thin marmots				spring	warm property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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