Test 2 · Mammals and how they care for their young

Which is true about mammals?

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

This is test 2 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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 mammals	case
5	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about mammals; 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

Every mammal is born able to walk and run at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mammal	det
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 born	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 run	cc
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 walk	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive	every mammal	able property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	walk	to-infinitive			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	infinitive			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 2

Every mammal is born from an egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mammal	det
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 egg	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		every mammal		a egg			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Every mammal feeds its young with milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mammal	det
2	mammal	mammal	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 young	nmod:poss
5	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 milk	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	every mammal	mammal's young				with milk	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient

Option 4

Every mammal lives on land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mammal	det
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 land	case
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	every mammal			land			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=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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