Test 8 · Climate zones

Why would a polar bear struggle to live in a tropical forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: live · To what, where: tropical forest

This is test 8 of lesson 16 «Climate zones» of the world 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	6 struggle	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 struggle	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 struggle	det
4	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 struggle	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 struggle	compound
6	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 live	mark
8	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 struggle	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 forest	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 forest	det
11	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forest	amod
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 live	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 struggle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	to-infinitive				a tropical forest			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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

It needs salt water to drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It	salt water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
2	drink	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is adapted to cold, not to heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 adapted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 adapted	aux:pass
3	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 cold	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 adapted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heat	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 heat	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 heat	mark
9	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 adapted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adapt	present · passive		It				to cold goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to cold=Goal
2	not heat	to-infinitive							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It cannot see well in green light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 see	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	It			green light		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It can only walk on sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	can	It			sand			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory

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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