Test 11 · ★ · Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, th…

Which is true about a big body?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 384 «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 body	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 body	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 body	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a big body; true 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

It lets an animal hide easily

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 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lets	obj
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lets	xcomp
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	It	a animal					tree rules
2	hide	infinitive	a animal not said here					easily property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It needs much less food than a small body does

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 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 less	advmod
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 does	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 body	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 body	amod
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 needs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It	less food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
2	do	present	a small body						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It keeps heat in and is hard for predators to kill

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	2 keeps	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hard	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hard	cop
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 predators	case
9	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hard	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 kill	mark
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in	present	It	heat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	is	present			for predators; hard property	tree rules
3	kill	to-infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It makes babies very quickly

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 quickly	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	babies				quickly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material baby=Product

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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