Test 7 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

«chuck the ducks that old loaf, they love it» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, ducks, best answer · What happens: chuck, loaf, love, be · To what, where: ducks, loaf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 123 «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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	_	2 chuck	punct
2	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ducks	det
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chuck	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 loaf	nsubj
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loaf	amod
7	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ducks	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 love	nsubj
10	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 chuck	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 love	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 love	parataxis
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the ducks	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme
2	loaf in a quote		the ducks		tree rules
3	love in a quote	present	ducks = duck	loaf	tree rules
4	is a	present	the best answer		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 · ✓ the right answer

Bread is poor food and rots in the pond; give oats or peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	cop
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rots	cc
6	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pond	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rots	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 food	parataxis
12	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 give	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 peas	cc
14	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 oats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Bread	poor food		tree rules
2	rot	present	Bread not said here		the pond	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	give	infinitive		oats or peas		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Theme

Option 2

Fine, as long as it is white bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 bread	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bread	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bread	cop
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bread	amod
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					as white bread	tree rules

Option 3

Fine, if you soak it in milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soak	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 soak	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 soak	nsubj
5	soak	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soak	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 milk	case
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	present	you	it				in milk	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination in milk=Theme

Option 4

Fine, bread is a duck's natural food and the best thing for it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bread	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 food	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 food	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 duck	det
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 food	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 duck	case
8	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thing	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 food	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fine bread	a duck's natural food and the best thing for thing					tree rules

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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