Test 11 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

How is sleeping through summer heat like hibernating through winter cold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sleep, hibernate · To what, where: summer heat, winter cold

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sleeping	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleeping	aux
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	compound
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeping	obl
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 hibernating	mark
8	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sleeping	advcl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 cold	case
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cold	compound
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hibernating	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sleeping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive				summer heat			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hibernate	gerund				winter cold			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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

Both happen only in the Arctic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 happen	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Arctic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Arctic	det
6	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Both			the Arctic			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location

Option 2

Neither has anything to do with food, they are only about the weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 has	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 anything	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weather	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weather	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weather	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 weather	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 weather	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weather	det
14	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Neither	anything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Neither not said here	anything not said here	with food	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	they		about the weather	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both help an animal live through a time without food or water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 animal	det
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animal	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 food	case
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		both animal					tree rules
2	live	present	both animal				time	without food or water	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Both make the animal grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Both	the animal					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product
2	grow	present	Both not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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