Test 10 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations

why's a polar bear got so much fat

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: polar bear · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Habitats and adaptations» 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 got	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
4	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bear	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fat	amod
9	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a polar bear					get property	tree rules

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

To make it run faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		it					tree rules
2	run	infinitive						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To float better in hot seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 float	mark
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 float	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 seas	case
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seas	amod
6	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	to-infinitive				hot seas		well property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

Option 3

To store water for the summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 store	mark
2	store	store	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 store	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 summer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 summer	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	to-infinitive		water			summer		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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

To keep warm in the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive				the cold		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cold=Location

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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