Test 9 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light

Why could the kiwi live on the ground at night in New Zealand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kiwi · What happens: live · To what, where: ground

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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	4 kiwi	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kiwi	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kiwi	det
4	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 Zealand	case
12	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Zealand	flat
13	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 night	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

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

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

It is poisonous to every hunter

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	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hunter	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hunter	det
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					to every hunter; poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2

It runs far too fast for any hunter to catch it

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 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fast	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 runs	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hunter	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 hunter	det
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 catch	mark
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 runs	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	It					for any hunter; fast property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for hunter=Beneficiary
2	catch	to-infinitive		hunter					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There were no ground mammals there to hunt it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 mammals	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mammals	compound
5	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 were	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hunt	mark
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 were	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no ground mammals			there; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	to-infinitive	no ground mammals not said here	it					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

It could always fly away

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	4 fly	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 fly	advmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	could	It					always, away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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