Test 5 · ★ · Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, th…

«why'd a beaver that eats pond weeds need a dam lol» What is the best reasoning?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beaver, pond weeds, best reasoning · What happens: eat, need, be · To what, where: dam, beaver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 beaver	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 beaver	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 beaver	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beaver	det
5	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beaver	acl:relcl
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weeds	compound
9	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eats	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dam	det
12	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 eats	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 eats	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 eats	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reasoning	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 reasoning	amod
19	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 beaver	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	a beaver		tree rules
2	need in a quote	present	pond weeds	a dam	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dam=Theme
3	is a	present	the best reasoning	a beaver	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

Every beaver must build a dam, or it cannot live at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 beaver	det
2	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 build	aux
4	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dam	det
6	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 live	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 live	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 live	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 live	advmod
12	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 build	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	must	every beaver	a dam					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product
2	not live	can	beaver			all			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

Dams are for sleeping only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleeping	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 sleeping	mark
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 sleeping	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Beavers build dams to hide fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hide	mark
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 build	advcl
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Beavers	dams					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product
2	hide	to-infinitive	Beavers not said here	fish					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It found its food in water already, so it might not need one

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
7	already	already	ADV	_	2 found	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 need	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 need	advmod
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	It	its food		water			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
2	not need	might	food	one					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

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