Test 4 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

«emperor penguin dads are lazy, they just stand there for 2 months» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penguin dads, dads, best answer · What happens: be, stand

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	_	6 lazy	punct
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 penguin	compound
3	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dads	compound
4	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lazy	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	cop
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stand	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stand	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 stand	advmod
10	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	advcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stand	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 months	case
13	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 months	nummod
14	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 What	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 months	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 stand	obl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	penguin dads			lazy property	tree rules
2	stand in a quote	present	dads = dad	there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the best answer		month		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 asleep and the egg looks after itself

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 asleep	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 looks	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	conj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					asleep property	tree rules
2	look	present	the egg				after egg		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

They eat snow all the time instead of fish, so they never get hungry at all

The tree, 16 words

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	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl:unmarked
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 fish	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hungry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	snow			time	instead fish	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient
2	not get	present	they					hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are guarding the egg on their feet in the cold and eating nothing

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 guarding	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 guarding	aux
3	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 egg	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarding	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 feet	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guarding	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cold	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cold	det
11	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarding	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eating	cc
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 guarding	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present · progressive	They	the egg		their feet		in the cold	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary
2	eat	gerund	They not said here	nothing					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 4

They stand still because they are frozen solid

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	2 stand	nsubj
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stand	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 frozen	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 frozen	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 frozen	aux:pass
7	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stand	advcl
8	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frozen	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	They				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	freeze	present · passive		they				solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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