Test 8 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

«how come the python eats once a month and I need 3 meals a day» Which answer fits?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, answer · What happens: come, eat, need, fit · To what, where: python, 3 meals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» 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	_	3 come	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eats	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 python	det
5	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 eats	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 month	det
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 once	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 need	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eats	conj
13	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 meals	nummod
14	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 need	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	obl:unmarked
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
18	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 answer	det
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fits	nsubj
20	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eats	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive		the python			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location python=Theme
2	eat in a quote	present				once property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	need in a quote	present	I	3 meals	day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme
4	fit	present	which answer				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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

Pythons sneak out to eat in secret every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sneak	nsubj
2	sneak	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sneak	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sneak	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 secret	case
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak out	present	Pythons						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Pythons not said here			secret	night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

You are much bigger than a python

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bigger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 python	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 python	det
7	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					than a python; big property	tree rules

Option 3

Pythons are on a diet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 diet	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 diet	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 diet	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 diet	det
5	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pythons			a diet			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You are warm-blooded and burn food to keep warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 blooded	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blooded	cop
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blooded	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 warm	punct
5	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 burn	cc
7	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blooded	conj
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 burn	advcl
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		blooded property	tree rules
2	burn	present	You not said here	food		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive	You not said here		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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