Test 12 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…

«cassowary's just a big turkey, I'll shoo it off» Why is that a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big turkey · What happens: shoo off, be · To what, where: cassowary, bad idea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 shoo	punct
2	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turkey	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cassowary	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 turkey	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 turkey	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turkey	amod
7	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoo	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turkey	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 shoo	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 shoo	aux
11	shoo	shoo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 idea	csubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shoo	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 shoo	compound:prt
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 shoo	punct
15	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 idea	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 idea	cop
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 idea	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 idea	det
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 idea	amod
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoo off in a quote	future	cassowary's big turkey	cassowary					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present		a bad idea					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 · ← Mova's choice

It is fine, they are very shy and never kick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shy	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shy	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shy	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 shy	advmod
8	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kick	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 kick	advmod
11	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	they	shy property	tree rules
3	not kick	infinitive	they not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It can kick hard with a dagger-like claw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kick	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kick	aux
3	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 kick	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 claw	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 claw	det
7	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dagger	punct
9	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 claw	amod
10	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	can	It					with a like claw; hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with claw=Instrument

Option 3

Cassowaries can fly at you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cassowaries	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	Cassowaries					at you	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Location

Option 4

Turkeys bite and so do cassowaries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 do	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bite	conj
6	cassowaries	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Turkeys						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	do	infinitive	Turkeys not said here	cassowaries					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cassowary=Eventuality

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