Test 1 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

«in frozen sven eats carrots so reindeer live on carrots» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reindeer · What happens: freeze, eat, live, be · To what, where: carrots, frozen sven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 eats	punct
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sven	case
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sven	amod
4	sven	sven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eats	obl
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eats	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 live	advmod
8	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	nsubj
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eats	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 carrots	case
11	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 live	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 live	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze in a quote	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	eat in a quote	present		carrots	frozen sven		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient
3	live in a quote	present	reindeer		carrots		tree rules
4	is	present				right property	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

Yes, carrots are their main food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
6	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	carrots	carrots's main food					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, and they pull carrots out of the frozen ground with their antlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pull	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pull	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	nsubj
5	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 ground	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ground	amod
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 antlers	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 antlers	nmod:poss
14	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	they	carrots		the frozen ground		with carrots's antlers	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent carrot=Theme out ground=Initial_Location
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

No, reindeer eat only fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 fish	advmod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	reindeer	fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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

No, wild reindeer dig through snow for lichen and graze plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 dig	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dig	punct
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reindeer	amod
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dig	nsubj
5	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 snow	case
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dig	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 lichen	case
9	lichen	lichen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dig	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plants	cc
11	graze	graze	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plants	compound
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lichen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	wild reindeer			snow		for lichen and graze plants	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent through snow=Location for lichen=Theme

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