Test 11 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…

Why might slow animals like giant tortoises live longer than fast ones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slow animals · What happens: live

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 88 «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 live	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 live	aux
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 tortoises	case
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tortoises	amod
7	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nmod
8	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 live	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 ones	case
11	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 longer	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	might	slow animals like giant tortoises					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Their shells make them magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shells	nmod:poss
2	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Their shells	them = they				magic property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2

They never get hungry, so they never have to go out looking for food

The tree, 14 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	3 get	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 have	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 have	advmod
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 go	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 food	case
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not get	present	They	hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not have	present	they		tree rules
3	go out	to-infinitive	they not said here	out property	tree rules
4	look	gerund	they not said here	for food	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 3

They are always asleep

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	4 asleep	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 asleep	advmod
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					always, asleep property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their slow lives seem to help them live long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lives	nmod:poss
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lives	amod
3	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seem	nsubj
4	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seem	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Their slow lives			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	help	to-infinitive	Their slow lives not said here	lives = life		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	live	infinitive	lives = life not said here		long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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