Test 8 · ★ · Food chains and food webs
A lion eats a zebra that ate grass. Where did the lion's energy first come from?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lion, zebra, energy · What happens: eat, be, come · To what, where: zebra, grass
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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
Sentence 1: A lion eats a zebra that ate grass.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 zebra | det |
| 5 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ate | nsubj |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 zebra | acl:relcl |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ate | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | a lion | a zebra | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebra=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | a zebra | grass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
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: Where did the lion's energy first come from?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lion | det |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 energy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 lion | case |
| 6 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 energy | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 come | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lion's energy | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | the lion's energy not said here | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The lion's own body
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 body | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 lion | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The zebra's muscles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 zebra | det |
| 2 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 muscles | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 zebra | case |
| 4 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The water hole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hole | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hole | compound |
| 3 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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