Test 3 · ★★ · Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, g…

«Polly repeats grandpa so parrots understand everything we say» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Polly, parrots, we · What happens: repeat, understand, say, be · To what, where: grandpa, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	_	3 repeats	punct
2	Polly	polly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repeats	nsubj
3	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repeats	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 understand	advmod
6	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 understand	nsubj
7	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 repeats	ccomp
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 say	obj
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 understand	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 understand	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 understand	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 repeats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repeat in a quote	present	Polly	grandpa		tree rules
2	understand in a quote	present	parrots			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	we	everything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
4	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

Parrots copy sounds like a flock call; some, like Alex, learned many names

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	nsubj
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 call	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 call	det
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	compound
7	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 learned	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 learned	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Alex	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 Alex	case
12	Alex	Alex	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 some	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Alex	punct
14	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 copy	conj
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 names	amod
16	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 learned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	Parrots	sounds				like a flock call	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
2	learn	past	some	many names					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic

Option 2

Yes, parrots think in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 English	case
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	parrots			English			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, every parrot understands all our words and answers us on purpose, like a person

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 understands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 parrot	det
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understands	nsubj
5	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 words	det:predet
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 words	nmod:poss
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 understands	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 answers	cc
10	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 words	conj
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 words	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 purpose	case
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understands	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 person	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 person	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understands	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	every parrot	our words us and answers		purpose			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	word		our						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

No, parrots cannot copy any sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 copy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 copy	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 copy	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 copy	advmod
6	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sounds	det
8	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not copy	can	parrots	any sounds					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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