Test 4 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

Which animal stays active all winter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal · What happens: stay

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	nsubj
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stays	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	obl:unmarked
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	which animal				winter	active property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

A hibernating dormouse in its nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dormouse	det
2	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dormouse	amod
3	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dormouse	nmod

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

Option 2

A bat sleeping deeply in a dark cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bat	det
2	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bat	acl
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	3 sleeping	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cave	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cave	amod
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund	a bat not said here			a dark cave		deeply property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A squirrel with a store of nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 squirrel	det
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 store	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 store	det
5	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squirrel	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 nuts	case
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 store	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A swallow spending winter in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 swallow	det
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 swallow	acl
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spending	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Africa	case
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	gerund	a swallow not said here			Africa	winter		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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