Test 9 · ★ · The desert: living with little water

«a rat that never drinks? rubbish» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rat · What happens: not drink, be · To what, where: rubbish, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 rat	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rat	det
3	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 drinks	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 drinks	advmod
6	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rat	acl:relcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 rubbish	punct
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drinks	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 rubbish	punct
10	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 answer	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 answer	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 answer	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 answer	amod
14	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drinks	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 rat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink in a quote	present	a rat	rubbish					tree rules
2	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

True, but only because it drinks blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blood	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drinks	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 drinks	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 drinks	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 drinks	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drinks	nsubj
7	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	it						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

True, because it stores water in its cheeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stores	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stores	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 stores	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stores	nsubj
5	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stores	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cheeks	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cheeks	nmod:poss
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stores	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	it	water		water's cheeks			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in cheek=Location

Option 3

Rubbish, every rat must drink water every single day, or it will die within a week

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbish	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rat	det
4	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	aux
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 die	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 die	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 die	aux
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 drink	conj
16	within	within	ADP	_	18 week	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 week	det
18	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	must	Rubbish	water			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	die	future	rat				week		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

True: the kangaroo rat gets water from its food and wastes almost none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rat	det
4	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	compound
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 food	nmod:poss
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wastes	cc
12	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	conj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 none	advmod
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 wastes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the kangaroo rat	water		rat's food			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=Source
2	waste	present	the kangaroo rat not said here	none					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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