Test 11 · Feeding times and the zoo kitchen

«how many tails at the vulture feeding, there's 4 vultures and, oh wait, 5»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 4 vultures · What happens: be, wait · To what, where: 5

This is test 11 of lesson 111 «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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	_	4 tails	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tails	amod
4	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 's	parataxis
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 feeding	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feeding	det
7	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feeding	compound
8	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tails	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tails	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 vultures	nummod
13	vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 's	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wait	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wait	punct
16	oh	oh	INTJ	_	17 wait	discourse
17	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 's	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 5	punct
19	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 wait	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	4 vultures			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait in a quote	infinitive	4 vultures not said here	5					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

0, birds do not have tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 birds	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 0	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	0 birds	tails					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 2

10, two tails each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 tails	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tails	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tails	nummod
4	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tails	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

5, one tail for each vulture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tail	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tail	nummod
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 5	appos
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 vulture	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 vulture	det
7	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

4, as first said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 4	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle						first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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