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Test 2 · ★ · Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters

In a cartoon a lion eats grass with the zebras every day. Where does a real lion get its energy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: eat, do, get · To what, where: grass, cartoon, real lion, energy

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 46 «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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: In a cartoon a lion eats grass with the zebras every day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 zebras	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 zebras	det
10	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eats	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obl:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a lion	grass		a cartoon	day	with the zebras	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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.

Sentence 2: Where does a real lion get its energy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lion	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lion	amod
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 energy	nmod:poss
8	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a real lion					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Eventuality
2	get	present		lion's energy					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer energy=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

From the sunshine on its mane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 sunshine	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sunshine	det
3	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 mane	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mane	nmod:poss
6	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sunshine	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

From the water it drinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 water	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinks	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drinks	nsubj
5	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	water			the water			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from water=Source

Option 3

From the grass, like the zebras, only it eats a lot more of it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 grass	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grass	det
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eats	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 zebras	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 zebras	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 zebras	det
7	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grass	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grass	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 eats	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eats	nsubj
11	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lot	det
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eats	obj
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 eats	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 more	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	it	a lot		the grass and the zebras			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

From eating plant-eaters, which got it from plants and the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	SCONJ	_	2 eating	mark
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaters	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 plant	punct
5	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eating	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eaters	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 plants	case
11	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Sun	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun	det
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eating	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		plant eaters					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Patient
2	get	past	plant eaters	it		plants			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from plant=Source

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