Test 10 · ★ · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…

«why does a turtle eater need such a strong bite» Which answer fits?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: turtle eater, answer · What happens: need, fit · To what, where: strong bite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 82 «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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 need	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 need	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eater	det
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eater	compound
6	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fits	parataxis
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 bite	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bite	det
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bite	amod
11	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
13	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 answer	det
14	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fits	nsubj
15	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 fits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present · do-support	a turtle eater	such strong bite					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bite=Theme
2	fit	present	which 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

Turtles bite back very hard, so it must bite first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 bite	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 bite	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bite	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 bite	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bite	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bite	aux
10	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bite	conj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 bite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite back	present	Turtles					hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	bite	must	it					first property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Turtles are very fast and must be grabbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fast	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fast	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grabbed	cc
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grabbed	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 grabbed	aux:pass
8	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Turtles					fast property	tree rules
2	grab	must · passive	Turtles not said here						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

Turtle meat is tougher than any bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	compound
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tougher	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tougher	cop
4	tougher	tough	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 bone	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bone	det
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tougher	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Turtle meat					than any bone; tough property	tree rules

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

It has to crack a hard shell to reach the meat

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 crack	mark
4	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shell	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shell	amod
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crack	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crack	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meat	det
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	It		tree rules
2	crack	to-infinitive		a hard shell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
3	reach	to-infinitive		the meat	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meat=Theme

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