Test 2 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

«happy feet's nonsense, penguins don't use their voices» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: penguins · What happens: not use, be · To what, where: voices

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 nonsense	punct
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feet	amod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nonsense	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 feet	case
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
7	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 use	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 use	advmod
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nonsense	acl:relcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 voices	nmod:poss
12	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 use	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nonsense	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use in a quote	present · do-support	penguins	penguins's voices					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
2	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

Penguins find their mates by smell only, as all the penguins look the same

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mates	nmod:poss
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 smell	case
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	2 find	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 look	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 penguins	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 penguins	det
12	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Penguins	Penguins's mates				by smell	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
2	look	present	all penguins	the same					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute

Option 2

Penguins never find each other again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 find	advmod
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 find	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	present	Penguins	each			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic

Option 3

Penguins have no voice at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Penguins	no voice		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

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

Emperor penguins really do find their mates and chicks by their calls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 penguins	compound
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mates	nmod:poss
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chicks	cc
9	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mates	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 calls	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 calls	nmod:poss
12	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · do-support	Emperor penguins	penguins's mates and chicks				by penguins's calls	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
2	call		penguins = penguin						nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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