Test 8 · ★ · The heart and blood

Why does a giraffe not faint when it lifts its head after drinking?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giraffe · What happens: lift, drink · To what, where: head

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 65 «The heart and blood» 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	13 drinking	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 drinking	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 giraffe	det
4	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drinking	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 faint	advmod
6	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lifts	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lifts	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lifts	nsubj
9	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 drinking	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifts	obj
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 drinking	mark
13	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 drinking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	present	giraffe	giraffe's head					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	drink	present · do-support	a giraffe						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Its strong heart and special blood vessels keep blood flowing to its brain

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	3 heart	nmod:poss
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vessels	cc
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vessels	amod
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vessels	compound
7	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heart	conj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
10	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 brain	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brain	nmod:poss
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Its strong heart and special blood vessels	blood					tree rules
2	flow	gerund	blood not said here					to blood's brain	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It holds its breath to keep blood in its head

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 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 holds	advcl
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	It	its breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive		blood		blood's head			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme in head=Location

Option 3

It always drinks lying down

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 drinks	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 drinks	advmod
3	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 drinks	xcomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	It					always property	tree rules
2	lie down	gerund						down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Its brain is in its neck

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 brain	nmod:poss
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 neck	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 neck	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 neck	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neck	nmod:poss
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its brain			brain's neck			tree rules

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