Test 8 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

«why was the dodo so easy to catch, dumb bird or what» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dodo · What happens: be, catch

This is test 8 of lesson 131 «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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	_	7 easy	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 easy	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dodo	det
5	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 catch	mark
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bird	punct
11	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 easy	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 what	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the dodo	easy property	tree rules
2	catch in a quote	to-infinitive	the dodo not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		right property	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

It had no predators on its island, so it never learned to fear people

The tree, 14 words

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 predators	det
4	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 island	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 island	nmod:poss
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 learned	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learned	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 learned	advmod
12	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fear	mark
14	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learned	xcomp
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	It	no predators	its island	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent predator=Patient
2	not learn	past	island			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fear	to-infinitive	island not said here	people		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 2

It was far too heavy to walk, so it just sat and waited to be picked up

The tree, 17 words

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 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 heavy	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 waited	cc
14	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 picked	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 picked	aux:pass
17	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 waited	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 picked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	It	far, heavy property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	it		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	past			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pick up	to-infinitive · passive			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»

Option 3

It wanted to be caught

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 caught	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

Option 4

It was blind

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 blind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blind	cop
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					blind property	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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