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Test 9 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

A wood frog froze solid in winter and its heart stopped. What happens in spring?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: wood frog, heart · What happens: freeze, stop, happen

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A wood frog froze solid in winter and its heart stopped.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 froze	nsubj
4	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 froze	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 froze	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 froze	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 froze	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	a wood frog				winter	solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stop	past	frog's heart						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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.

Sentence 2: What happens in spring?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spring	case
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present					spring		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It only comes back if someone warms it in their hands

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 comes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 warms	mark
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 warms	nsubj
7	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 warms	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 warms	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	It						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warm a condition, not said to happen	present	someone	it		their hands			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

It stays frozen for ever

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 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stays	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	It						tree rules
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It turns into a tadpole again

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 tadpole	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tadpole	det
5	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It				again	into a tadpole result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tadpole=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It thaws and hops away

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 thaws	nsubj
2	thaws	thaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hops	cc
4	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thaws	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 hops	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thaw	present	It						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hop away	present						away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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