Test 4 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

Why should a bonfire pile be checked before it is lit in November?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: November · What happens: check, lit · To what, where: bonfire pile, pile

This is test 4 · ★ 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	7 checked	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 checked	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pile	det
4	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pile	compound
5	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 checked	nsubj:pass
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 checked	aux:pass
7	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 lit	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lit	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lit	aux:pass
11	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 checked	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 November	case
13	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lit	obl:agent
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 checked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	should · passive		a bonfire pile					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lit	present · passive	November	pile			november		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 · ✓ the right answer

A hedgehog may be hibernating inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hedgehog	det
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hibernating	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hibernating	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hibernating	aux
5	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 hibernating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	may · progressive	a hedgehog					inside property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 2

The leaves might be too wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wet	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wet	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 wet	advmod
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	the leaves					wet property	tree rules

Option 3

Hedgehogs light bonfires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 light	nsubj
2	light	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bonfires	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 light	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present	Hedgehogs	bonfires					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bonfire=Product

Option 4

Bats hibernate only in bonfire piles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hibernate	nsubj
2	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 piles	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 piles	case
5	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piles	compound
6	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hibernate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	present	Bats			bonfire piles			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pile=Location

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