Test 12 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

Why is a warm house dangerous for a tortoise that ought to be hibernating?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: warm house, tortoise · What happens: be, hibernate

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dangerous	nsubj
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 tortoise	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tortoise	det
9	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dangerous	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hibernating	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hibernating	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	14 hibernating	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 hibernating	aux
14	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tortoise	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a warm house					for a tortoise; dangerous property	tree rules
2	hibernate	ought · progressive	a tortoise						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 · ✓ the right answer

It may wake and burn its energy with no food to eat

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	3 wake	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wake	aux
3	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 burn	cc
5	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wake	conj
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 energy	nmod:poss
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 burn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wake	may	It			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	burn	infinitive		its energy	with no food	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent energy=Patient with food=Instrument
3	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tortoises catch colds from radiators and hot water pipes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	nsubj
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 radiators	case
5	radiators	radiator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pipes	cc
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pipes	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pipes	compound
9	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 radiators	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Tortoises	colds		radiators and hot water pipes			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cold=Theme from radiator=Source

Option 3

Warm air dries its shell into dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dries	nsubj
3	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shell	nmod:poss
5	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dries	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 dust	case
7	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	Warm air	air's shell		dust			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient shell=Result

Option 4

It is not dangerous at all

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 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It			all		dangerous property	tree rules

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