Test 15 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe

why does a pond need a sloping bit or a plank

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pond · What happens: need, slope · To what, where: sloping bit

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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	5 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pond	det
4	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	sloping	slope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 plank	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plank	det
11	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	a pond	a sloping bit or a plank					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bit=Theme
2	slope	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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

So the pond fills faster when it rains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 fills	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pond	det
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fills	nsubj
4	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 fills	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 rains	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rains	nsubj
8	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fills	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	the pond					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rain	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

So the water stays warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 stays	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the water					warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

So fish can jump out onto the grass to eat bugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 jump	advmod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	aux
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 jump	advmod
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 jump	advcl
11	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	can	fish			the grass		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto grass=Trajectory
2	eat	to-infinitive	fish not said here	bugs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So animals that fall in can climb out and not drown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 climb	advmod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 climb	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 animals	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	aux
7	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 climb	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drown	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 drown	advmod
11	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 climb	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	fall in	present	animals	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	climb out	can	animals	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not drown	infinitive	animals not said here	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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