Test 3 · ★ · Pet care, food and responsibility

Why do people keep a lamp over a lizard's tank all day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: keep · To what, where: lamp, tank

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 205 «Pet care, food and responsibility» of the everyday 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 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lamp	det
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	11 tank	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lizard	det
9	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tank	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 lizard	case
11	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	people	a lamp		a lizard's tank	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme over tank=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

The lamp keeps flies and other insects away from the tank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeps	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 insects	cc
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 insects	amod
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flies	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 keeps	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 tank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tank	det
11	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the lamp	flies and other insects				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

Option 2

Lizards need the light to read the labels on their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 labels	det
8	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 food	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 food	nmod:poss
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Lizards	the light					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme
2	read	to-infinitive	Lizards not said here	the labels		Lizards's food			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The lizard cannot warm itself and gets ill when cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warm	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 warm	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gets	cc
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	conj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 cold	advmod
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warm	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not warm	can	the lizard	lizard					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	get	present	the lizard not said here					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Lizards can only fall asleep in bright light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	can	Lizards			bright light		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in light=Location

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