Test 10 · The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs

Why does a cooler echidna body need less food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cooler echidna body · What happens: need · To what, where: less food

This is test 10 of lesson 43 «The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs» 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	7 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 body	det
4	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 body	amod
5	echidna	echidna	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 body	compound
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	a cooler echidna body	less food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keeping warm burns food, so a cooler body burns less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 burns	csubj
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burns	amod
3	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 food	compound
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 burns	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 burns	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 body	det
8	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 body	amod
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 burns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		burns food					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	burn	present	a cooler body					less property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cold bodies can make their own food out of air and sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bodies	amod
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 air	case
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sunlight	cc
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 air	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	Cold bodies	bodies's own food		air and sunlight			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 3

Food freezes inside a cool body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freezes	nsubj
2	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 body	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 body	det
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freezes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Food			a cool body			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Cool animals never move at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	Cool animals			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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