Test 2 · ★ · The desert: living with little water

«camels store water in the humps so they don't need to drink» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: camels · What happens: store, not need, drink, be · To what, where: water, humps

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	3 store	punct
2	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 store	nsubj
3	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 store	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 humps	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 humps	det
7	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 store	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 need	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 need	advmod
12	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 store	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 need	xcomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 drink	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 drink	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 store	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	store in a quote	present	camels	water	the humps		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in hump=Location
2	not need in a quote	present · do-support	camels = camel				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	drink not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	camels = camel not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				right 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the humps are fat, though a camel can drink over 100 litres at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 humps	det
4	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fat	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fat	cop
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drink	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 drink	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 camel	det
10	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drink	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 drink	aux
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fat	advcl
13	over	over	ADV	_	14 100	advmod
14	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 litres	nummod
15	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drink	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the humps					fat property	tree rules
2	drink	can	a camel	100 litres					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient

Option 2

Yes, and they refill the humps from rain that falls on their backs in the desert

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 refill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 refill	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 refill	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 refill	nsubj
5	refill	refill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 humps	det
7	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 refill	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 rain	case
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refill	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 falls	nsubj
11	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rain	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 backs	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 backs	nmod:poss
14	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 falls	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 desert	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 desert	det
17	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refill	present	they	the humps		rain			tree rules
2	fall	present	rain			humps's backs		in the desert	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on back=Location

Option 3

No, the humps are full of air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 humps	det
4	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the humps					of air; full property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, each hump is a water tank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 tank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hump	det
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tank	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tank	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tank	compound
8	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	each hump	a water tank					tree rules

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