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Test 6 · ★ · Fish, frogs and reptiles

A zoo feeds its crocodile much less often than its lion. Why is this possible?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo, this · What happens: feed, be · To what, where: crocodile

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 74 «Fish, frogs and reptiles» 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: A zoo feeds its crocodile much less often than its lion.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 zoo	det
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	nsubj
3	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crocodile	nmod:poss
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	11 lion	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 lion	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lion	nmod:poss
11	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feeds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	a zoo		zoo's crocodile			than zoo's lion	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Recipient

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 is this possible?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 possible	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 possible	nsubj
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					possible property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The lion is much smaller than the crocodile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smaller	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smaller	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 smaller	advmod
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 crocodile	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crocodile	det
8	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lion					than the crocodile; small property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The crocodile does not burn food to keep warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 burn	advmod
5	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 burn	advcl
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	present · do-support	the crocodile	food					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	the crocodile not said here					warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The crocodile eats only plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 plants	advmod
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the crocodile	plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

Option 4

The crocodile drinks more water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	nsubj
3	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	the crocodile	more water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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