Test 3 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations
A polar bear is moved to a hot desert. What would its fur and fat do there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: move · To what, where: polar bear, hot desert
This is test 3 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A polar bear is moved to a hot desert.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | amod |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux:pass |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 desert | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desert | amod |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · passive | a polar bear | a hot desert | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to desert=Trajectory |
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 would its fur and fat do there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 there | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | aux |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fur | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fat | cc |
| 6 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fur | conj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | aux |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Make it overheat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | overheat | overheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overheat | infinitive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Help it find water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Help | xcomp |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | it | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
Option 3
Hide it on the sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sand | det |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | it | the sand | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient on sand=Location |
Option 4
Keep it cool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | cool property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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