Test 11 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations

why's a fennec fox got huge ears

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fennec fox · What happens: be, get · To what, where: fennec fox, huge ears

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	5 fox	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fox	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fox	det
4	fennec	fennec	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fox	compound
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ears	amod
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fennec fox					tree rules
2	get	past	a fennec fox	huge ears					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus

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 keep its head warm at night

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	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		its head			night	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 2

To dig its burrow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dig	mark
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 burrow	nmod:poss
4	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 dig	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	to-infinitive		its burrow				fast property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme

Option 3

To store water inside them

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	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	to-infinitive		water				inside them = they	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme inside they=Location

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

To help it lose heat in the hot desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 desert	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desert	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 desert	amod
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive		it					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	lose	infinitive		heat		the hot desert			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality

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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