Test 9 · How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, dr…
A robot penguin waddles among real penguins and films them. Why does it work?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot penguin, penguin · What happens: waddle, work
This is test 9 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: A robot penguin waddles among real penguins and films them.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 penguin | det |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 penguin | compound |
| 3 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waddles | nsubj |
| 4 | waddles | waddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 penguins | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 penguins | amod |
| 7 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 waddles | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 films | cc |
| 9 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 penguins | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 penguins | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waddles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waddle | present | a robot penguin | among real penguins films and films | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among penguin=Trajectory |
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: Why does it work?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 work | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 work | nsubj |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · do-support | penguin | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
The robot speaks penguin language
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 robot | det |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | nsubj |
| 3 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 language | compound |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the robot | penguin language | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Penguins cannot see at all, so they never notice anything new around them
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 see | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 notice | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 notice | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 notice | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 notice | advmod |
| 11 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 notice | obj |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 anything | amod |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 notice | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | Penguins | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not notice | present | Penguins = penguin | anything | around them = they | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Real penguins often ignore a robot that looks and moves a bit like them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 penguins | amod |
| 2 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ignore | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 ignore | advmod |
| 4 | ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 robot | det |
| 6 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ignore | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 looks | nsubj |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 robot | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 moves | cc |
| 10 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 looks | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moves | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 moves | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | present | Real penguins | a robot | often property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robot=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | present | a robot | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | move | present | a robot not said here | a bit | like penguins = penguin | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Penguins love all machines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 machines | det |
| 4 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Penguins | all machines | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer machine=Stimulus |
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