Test 10 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

Why could a green coat be useful for a sloth in the treetops?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: green coat · What happens: be

This is test 10 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 useful	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 useful	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coat	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coat	amod
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useful	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 useful	cop
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 sloth	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sloth	det
10	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useful	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 treetops	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 treetops	det
13	treetops	treetop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sloth	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	a green coat					for a sloth in the treetops; useful property	tree rules

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

It makes the leaves it eats taste much better

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taste	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	acl:relcl
7	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	ccomp
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 better	advmod
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	It			tree rules
2	eat	present	it	the leaves not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	taste	present	the leaves		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It keeps it warm

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	it				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may help it hide among leaves from harpy eagles

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	3 help	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	obj
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	xcomp
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hide	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 eagles	case
9	harpy	harpy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eagles	compound
10	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	may	It	it					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	hide	infinitive						among leaves; from harpy eagles	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eagle=Beneficiary

Option 4

It glows at night

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 glows	nsubj
2	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	It				night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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