Test 12 · How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, dr…

Which animals would glow brightest on a heat camera on a cold night?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animals · What happens: glow · To what, where: heat camera

This is test 12 of lesson 394 «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 glow	aux
4	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 glow	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 camera	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 camera	det
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 camera	compound
9	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glow	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 night	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glow	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 glow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	would	which animals			a heat camera	night	bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on camera=Location

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

Stones and logs that soaked up the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 soaked	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 logs	cc
3	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stones	conj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 soaked	nsubj:pass
5	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 soaked	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soaked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	participle · passive		Stones and logs					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cold-blooded frogs and snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blooded	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Cold	punct
3	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frogs	amod
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 snakes	cc
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frogs	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Warm-blooded mammals and birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blooded	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Warm	punct
3	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mammals	amod
4	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 birds	cc
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mammals	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Dead leaves lying on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 leaves	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	Dead leaves not said here			the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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