Test 9 · Mammals and how they care for their young

How does a mammal mother differ from a frog mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, differ · To what, where: mammal mother

This is test 9 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 differ	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mother	det
4	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	compound
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 mother	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mother	det
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	compound
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 differ	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 differ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a mammal mother					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
2	differ	present						from a frog mother	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from mother=Co-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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She lays thousands of eggs in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lays	nsubj
2	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lays	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	She	thousands of eggs		water			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme in water=Destination

Option 2

She leaves her young straight after birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 young	nmod:poss
4	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	2 leaves	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 birth	case
7	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	She	her young			after birth	straight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Theme

Option 3

Her babies breathe with gills at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 babies	nmod:poss
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	nsubj
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 gills	case
5	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	Her babies					with gills	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She feeds her young milk and cares for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feeds	nsubj
2	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 milk	nmod:poss
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 milk	amod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeds	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cares	cc
7	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feeds	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cares	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	She	her young milk					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
2	care	present	She not said here					for them = they	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

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