Test 6 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…
A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere. What problem could it have in the wild?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: reared chick, problem · What happens: rear, follow, have · To what, where: people, wild
This is test 6 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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
Sentence 1: A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chick | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reared | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 hand | punct |
| 4 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chick | amod |
| 5 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follows | nsubj |
| 6 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 follows | obj |
| 8 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 follows | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 follows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | participle | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | follow | present | a reared chick | people | everywhere property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.
Sentence 2: What problem could it have in the wild?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 have | obj |
| 2 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wild | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wild | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | could | problem | the wild | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1
It will never be hungry
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 | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hungry | cop |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | It | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 2
It will fly too fast to land
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 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 fly | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 land | mark |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | future | It | land | fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It may not behave like its own kind or fear danger
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 | 4 behave | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 behave | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 behave | advmod |
| 4 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kind | amod |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 behave | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 danger | cc |
| 10 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 danger | compound |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not behave | may | It | like its own kind or fear danger | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like kind=Attribute |
Option 4
It will be too clean to survive
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 | 5 clean | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 clean | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clean | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 clean | advmod |
| 5 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 survive | mark |
| 7 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clean | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | survive | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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