Test 11 · ★ · The desert: living with little water

«why's the snake going sideways, is it broken or what» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: snake · What happens: go, break, be · To what, where: snake, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 5 «The desert: living with little water» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 going	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 broken	advcl
7	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	aux:pass
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broken	nsubj:pass
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 broken	obl:agent
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
15	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 answer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the snake		sideways property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break in a quote	present · passive		snake		tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sidewinding touches the hot sand at only two points and does not slip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sidewinding	sidewinding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touches	nsubj
2	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sand	amod
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touches	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 points	case
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 two	advmod
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 points	nummod
9	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touches	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slip	cc
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 slip	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 slip	advmod
13	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 touches	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present	Sidewinding	the hot sand		two points			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sand=Co-Theme
2	not slip	present · do-support	Sidewinding not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

The snake is injured and limping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 injured	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 injured	cop
4	injured	injured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 limping	cc
6	limping	limping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 injured	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the snake					injured property	tree rules

Option 3

It is lost and looking for home

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 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 looking	cc
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lost	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	look	gerund						for home	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=Theme

Option 4

It always moves sideways, even in water, because it cannot go forwards

The tree, 13 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	3 moves	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 moves	advmod
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	3 moves	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 water	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 moves	conj
15	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	14 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	It			water		always, sideways property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
2	not go	can	water					forwards property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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