Test 7 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations

Which is a myth about camels?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: myth

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 camels	case
6	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 myth	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 myth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a myth				about camels	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

They have wide feet for sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feet	amod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	wide feet				for sand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their humps are full of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 humps	nmod:poss
2	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Their humps					of water; full property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They can go days without drinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl:unmarked
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 drinking	mark
6	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	They				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	gerund	They not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They can close their nostrils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 close	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 close	aux
3	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nostrils	nmod:poss
5	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 close	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	can	They	their nostrils					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nostril=Patient

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