Test 4 · How animals defend themselves

Why would a poisonous animal want to be easy to see instead of hiding?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poisonous animal · What happens: want, be, see, hide

This is test 4 of lesson 53 «How animals defend themselves» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 easy	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 easy	cop
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 want	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 easy	xcomp
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 hiding	mark
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 see	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	would	a poisonous animal		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	a poisonous animal not said here	easy property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	a poisonous animal not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	hide	gerund	a poisonous animal not said here		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Predators learn its colours and leave it alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 colours	nmod:poss
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learn	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
6	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 learn	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	Predators	its colours					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic
2	leave	present	Predators not said here	it				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Bright colours keep it warm in the shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 colours	amod
2	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 shade	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shade	det
8	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Bright colours	it		the shade		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in shade=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is too slow to hide

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	4 slow	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hide	mark
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					slow property	tree rules
2	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It wants to make friends with other animals

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		friends				with other animals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

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