Test 7 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

Why might an animal that eats poor food sleep longer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal · What happens: eat · To what, where: poor food sleep

This is test 7 · ★ 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	4 animal	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 animal	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animal	acl:relcl
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sleep	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleep	compound
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obj
10	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 eats	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a animal	poor food sleep				long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient

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

Its food gives little energy, so it saves energy by resting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 food	nmod:poss
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 energy	amod
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saves	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 saves	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saves	nsubj
9	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gives	parataxis
10	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saves	obj
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 resting	mark
12	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	present	Its food	little energy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
2	save	present	food	energy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	rest	gerund	food not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is waiting for better food to fall from the sky into its nest

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 waiting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fall	mark
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 nest	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nest	nmod:poss
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	It					for better food	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	to-infinitive				the sky		into sky's nest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location into nest=Destination

Option 3

Poor food makes animals sleepy because of sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 food	amod
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 sugar	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Poor food	animals				because sugar; sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material animal=Product

Option 4

It is too sad to stay awake

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					sad property	tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive						awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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