Test 8 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

«why do musk oxen just stand in a circle like idiots when wolves come» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: musk oxen, wolves · What happens: stand, come, be · To what, where: circle, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	_	7 stand	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stand	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stand	aux
4	musk	musk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oxen	compound
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 stand	advmod
7	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	csubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 circle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 circle	det
10	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stand	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 idiots	case
12	idiots	idiot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 circle	nmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 come	advmod
14	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	nsubj
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stand	advcl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct
17	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 answer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand in a quote	present · do-support	musk oxen		a circle like idiots	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location
2	come in a quote	present	wolves			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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

They are too slow to do anything else but stand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	xcomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 do	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 anything	advmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 stand	cc
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		slow property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	They not said here	anything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	stand	infinitive	They not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They are counting the wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 counting	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 counting	aux
3	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · progressive	They	the wolves					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The wall of horns protects the calves in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protects	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 horns	case
4	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wall	nmod
5	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calves	det
7	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protects	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	the wall of horns		the calves	the middle			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Beneficiary

Option 4

They are trying to look bigger to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 look	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 look	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	They						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here					to each; big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to each=Experiencer

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