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Test 3 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals

A boy in Alaska is shivering on a snowy walk. What is his body doing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, body · What happens: shiver, do · To what, where: snowy walk

This is test 3 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Alaska is shivering on a snowy walk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shivering	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Alaska	case
4	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shivering	aux
6	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 walk	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 walk	det
9	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walk	amod
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shivering	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shivering	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	present · progressive	a boy in Alaska			a snowy walk			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Sentence 2: What is his body doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 body	nmod:poss
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	boy's body						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Losing its energy for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 energy	nmod:poss
3	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Losing	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		its energy					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Eventuality

Option 2

Cooling itself down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Cooling	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Cooling	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	gerund		itself = it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 3

Getting ready to sleep in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ready	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	sleep	to-infinitive				the snow			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Making heat with its muscles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 muscles	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 muscles	nmod:poss
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		heat				with heat's muscles	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product

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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