Test 9 · ★★ · The penguin pool

Why would pebbles be precious in Antarctica?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: pebbles · What happens: be · To what, where: Antarctica

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 99 «The penguin pool» 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	5 precious	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 precious	aux
3	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 precious	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 precious	cop
5	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Antarctica	case
7	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 precious	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 precious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	pebbles			Antarctica		precious 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

Penguins eat them for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Penguins	them = they				for food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

Bare stones are scarce and keep eggs out of meltwater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stones	amod
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scarce	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scarce	cop
4	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scarce	conj
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 meltwater	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 meltwater	case
10	meltwater	meltwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bare stones					scarce property	tree rules
2	keep	present	Bare stones not said here	eggs		meltwater			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme out meltwater=Location

Option 3

They soak up the sun and keep the nest warm like a heater

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	2 soak	nsubj
2	soak	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 soak	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soak	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 soak	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nest	det
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 heater	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 heater	det
13	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	They	the sun					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sun=Source
2	keep	infinitive	They not said here	the nest				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme

Option 4

Penguins use them as money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Penguins	them = they				as money	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as money=Attribute

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