Test 11 · How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry

If you designed a hiding insect for a desert, what would it look like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, insect · What happens: design, hide, look · To what, where: hiding insect, desert

This is test 11 of lesson 51 «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 designed	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 designed	nsubj
3	designed	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 insect	det
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 insect	amod
6	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 designed	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 desert	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 desert	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 designed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 look	obl
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 desert	parataxis
15	like	like	ADP	_	14 look	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 designed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	design	past	you	a hiding insect	for a desert	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent insect=Result for desert=Beneficiary
2	hide	gerund				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	would	insect	a desert		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Bright red all over, to warn every animal in the desert away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 red	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 warn	advcl
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 over	advmod
4	over	over	ADV	_	2 red	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 warn	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 warn	mark
7	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warn	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 desert	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 desert	det
12	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warn	obl
13	away	away	ADV	_	7 warn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive			every animal	the desert		away property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sandy coloured, flat and still like a pebble or dry twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sandy	conj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flat	punct
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sandy	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pebble	cc
6	still	still	ADV	_	9 pebble	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 pebble	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pebble	det
9	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sandy	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 twig	cc
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 twig	amod
12	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pebble	conj

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

Option 3

Black with white spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 spots	case
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spots	amod
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Black	obl

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

Option 4

Bright green with shiny wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 wings	case
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wings	amod
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 green	obl

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

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