Test 7 · How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, dr…
You want to film a hedgehog in your garden at night without disturbing it. What would work best?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: want, film, disturb, work · To what, where: hedgehog, garden
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: You want to film a hedgehog in your garden at night without disturbing it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 film | mark |
| 4 | film | film | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hedgehog | det |
| 6 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 film | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 film | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 film | obl |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 disturbing | mark |
| 13 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 film | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disturbing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | film not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a hedgehog | your garden | night | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme in garden=Destination | ||
| 3 | disturb | gerund | You not said here | hedgehog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
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.
Sentence 2: What would work best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 work | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | aux |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 work | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | would | well property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent what=Material |
The options
Option 1
Standing right next to it with a torch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 next | advmod |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 1 Standing | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 next | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 torch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 torch | det |
| 8 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | with a torch; next property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Shouting so that it comes out of the hedge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 comes | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 2 so | fixed |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shouting | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 hedge | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hedge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hedge | det |
| 9 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | come out | present | it | the hedge | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hedge=Result |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A camera trap with a night camera
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trap | det |
| 2 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trap | compound |
| 3 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 camera | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 camera | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 camera | compound |
| 7 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trap | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Picking it up to film it close
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 film | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Picking | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Picking | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 film | mark |
| 5 | film | film | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 film | obj |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 film | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | gerund | it | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||||
| 2 | film | to-infinitive | Picking | it | close property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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