Test 11 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

what's hibernating mean

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hibernate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 hibernating	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hibernating	aux
3	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hibernating	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	present · progressive						mean property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Flying south for the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	south	south	ADV	_	1 Flying	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 winter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 winter	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund					winter	south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Changing colour in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		colour		the snow			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A long deep winter sleep with the body cooling down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sleep	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	amod
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	amod
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	compound
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	nmod
9	cooling	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sleep	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 cooling	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	gerund	a long deep winter sleep with the body not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Storing lots of food in a burrow to eat in the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storing	store	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Storing	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lots	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 burrow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 burrow	det
7	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Storing	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Storing	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 winter	det
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	gerund		lots of food		a burrow			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Theme in burrow=Location
2	eat	to-infinitive					winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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