Test 8 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals

Why must a whale come up to the surface again and again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whale · What happens: come up · To what, where: surface

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whale	det
4	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 surface	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 surface	det
9	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 again	cc
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 again	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	must	a whale			the surface	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_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 · ✓ the right answer

To breathe air with its lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 breathe	mark
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 lungs	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lungs	nmod:poss
6	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	to-infinitive		air				with air's lungs	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

Option 2

To catch the birds flying above the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 birds	acl
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		the birds					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	fly	gerund	the birds not said here			the sea			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above sea=Location

Option 3

To clean the sand out of its gills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 clean	mark
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clean	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 gills	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 gills	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gills	nmod:poss
8	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	to-infinitive		the sand		sand's gills			vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sand=Theme out gill=Source

Option 4

To warm up in the bright sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warm	mark
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 warm	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sunshine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunshine	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sunshine	amod
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	to-infinitive						in the bright sunshine	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in sunshine=Instrument

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