Test 12 · ★ · Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dun…

Why does a panda that digests little need to eat so much bamboo?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: panda · What happens: do, digest, need, eat · To what, where: panda, bamboo

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 398 «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 panda	det
4	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 digests	nsubj
6	digests	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 panda	acl:relcl
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 need	advmod
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 digests	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 need	xcomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 bamboo	advmod
13	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		a panda	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panda=Eventuality
2	digest	present	a panda		tree rules
3	need	present	a panda not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	a panda not said here	bamboo	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

It gets only a small part of the goodness, so it needs a lot

The tree, 14 words

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 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 part	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 goodness	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goodness	det
9	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 needs	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 needs	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gets	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lot	det
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It	a small part of the goodness					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus
2	need	present	part	a lot					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme

Option 2

Bamboo is the richest food on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 food	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
4	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bamboo	the richest food		Earth			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It saves food for winter

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 saves	nsubj
2	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	It	food			winter		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4

It likes the taste of leaves

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 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 taste	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 likes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 leaves	case
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	It	the taste of leaves					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme
2	taste			leaves					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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