Test 6 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

Which is true about bears in winter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 bears	case
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					winter	about bears; true property	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 turn white like Arctic hares

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 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turn	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 hares	case
5	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hares	amod
6	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They					like Arctic hares; white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They eat one large meal every day and then go back to sleep

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 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 meal	nummod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meal	amod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 sleep	case
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	one large meal			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	go back	infinitive	They not said here				then	to sleep result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result

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

Their body cools only a little while they sleep

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 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	nsubj
3	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cools	obl:unmarked
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 sleep	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sleep	nsubj
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cools	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	Their body	a little					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sleep	present	they						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They fly to warmer lands each year

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 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 lands	case
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 lands	amod
5	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fly	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	They				year	to warmer lands result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result

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