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Test 7 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

Wildebeest walk hundreds of kilometres across Africa each year following the rains. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wildebeest · What happens: walk, follow · To what, where: hundreds, Africa, rains

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Wildebeest walk hundreds of kilometres across Africa each year following the rains.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wildebeest	Wildebeest	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 kilometres	case
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	across	across	ADP	_	7 Africa	case
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl:unmarked
10	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walk	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rains	det
12	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 following	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Wildebeest	hundreds of kilometres		Africa	year		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme across africa=Trajectory
2	follow	gerund	Wildebeest not said here	the rains					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To find fresh grass and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		fresh grass and water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Topic

Option 2

To find a cave to hibernate in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cave	det
4	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hibernate	mark
6	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cave	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 hibernate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		a cave					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Topic
2	hibernate	to-infinitive		a cave not said here					vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 3

To change the colour of their fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 change	mark
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fur	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fur	nmod:poss
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colour	nmod

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

Option 4

To escape the cold winter snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 escape	mark
2	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snow	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snow	compound
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	to-infinitive		the cold winter snow					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snow=Initial_Location

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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