Test 9 · ★ · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…

Why would a fishing cat have slightly webbed feet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: web · To what, where: fishing cat

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 webbed	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 webbed	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	compound
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 webbed	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 webbed	aux
7	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	8 webbed	advmod
8	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 webbed	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 webbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	web	would · perfect · passive		a fishing cat				feet obl:unmarked; slightly 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

It lives on hot desert sand

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 sand	case
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sand	amod
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sand	compound
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			hot desert sand			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It hunts in swamps and water

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 hunts	nsubj
2	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 swamps	case
4	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunts	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swamps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	It			swamps and water			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in swamp=Location

Option 3

It walks on deep snow

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 walks	nsubj
2	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snow	amod
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	It			deep snow			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on snow=Trajectory

Option 4

It climbs tall trees in the forest

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 climbs	nsubj
2	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climbs	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	It	tall trees		the forest			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

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