Test 11 · ★★ · Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, g…

«parrot's chewing the cage bars to climb, it's trying to escape» What is it most likely doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: parrot · What happens: chew, climb, try, escape, be · To what, where: cage bars

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 139 «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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 chewing	punct
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chewing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chewing	aux
4	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bars	det
6	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bars	compound
7	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chewing	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 climb	mark
9	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bars	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trying	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trying	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trying	aux
13	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chewing	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 escape	mark
15	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trying	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 escape	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 doing	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 doing	cop
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 doing	nsubj
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 likely	advmod
21	likely	likely	ADV	_	22 doing	advmod
22	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 escape	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chewing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chew in a quote	present · progressive	parrot	the cage bars		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient
2	climb in a quote	to-infinitive	parrot not said here	the cage bars not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try in a quote	present · progressive	parrot			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	escape not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	parrot not said here			tree rules
5	is	present	parrot		do, likely 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

Sharpening its beak to bite people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beak	nmod:poss
3	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharpening	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bite	mark
5	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sharpening	advcl
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	gerund		its beak					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
2	bite	to-infinitive		people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Using its beak as a third foot to climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beak	nmod:poss
3	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 foot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 foot	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 foot	amod
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 climb	mark
9	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Using	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		its beak				as a third foot	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent beak=Duration as foot=Attribute
2	climb	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Trying to eat the metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 eat	mark
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 metal	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		the metal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Patient

Option 4

Building a nest out of bars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nest	det
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Building	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 bars	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bars	case
6	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Building	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	gerund		a nest		bars			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

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