Test 4 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

Why do wild lizards usually die when children take them home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wild lizards, children · What happens: do, die, take · To what, where: lizards

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 die	advcl
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lizards	amod
4	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 take	advmod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	nsubj
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 die	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 take	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	wild lizards not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	present	wild lizards		usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	take	present	children	lizards = lizard	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

They are allergic to people's hands and skin

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 allergic	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allergic	cop
3	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 hands	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hands	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 people	case
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allergic	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 skin	cc
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					to people's hands and skin; allergic property	tree rules

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

They need their wild home and food to survive

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 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 home	nmod:poss
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 home	amod
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 food	cc
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 survive	mark
9	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	They	their wild home and food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme
2	survive	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Lizards die when they see a cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 see	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 die	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cage	det
7	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Lizards						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	see	present	Lizards = lizard	a cage					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus

Option 4

Houses are always far too cold for lizards to live in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cold	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cold	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 lizards	case
8	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cold	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 live	mark
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lizards	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Houses					for lizards; cold, far property	tree rules
2	live in	to-infinitive	Houses not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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