Test 5 · The city as a habitat

bloody gull nicked my chip again. how do i stop it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: nick, stop · To what, where: gull

This is test 5 of lesson 14 «The city as a habitat» 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	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gull	amod
2	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chip	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chip	amod
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chip	nmod:poss
5	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 chip	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chip	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 stop	advmod
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 stop	nsubj
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chip	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	stop	present · do-support	i	gull					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

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

Nothing works, gulls are faster than light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gulls	punct
4	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 faster	obl:unmarked
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 faster	cop
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 works	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 light	case
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Nothing						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						than light; gulls obl:unmarked; fast property	tree rules

Option 2

Throw more chips so it gets full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Throw	advmod
3	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throw	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 gets	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Throw	advcl
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	chips					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Theme
2	get	present	it					full property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Keep food covered and look straight at the gull, which slows it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Keep	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 look	cc
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 gull	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gull	det
9	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slows	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 slows	nsubj
12	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gull	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slows	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 slows	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	food		tree rules
2	cover	participle	food not said here			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive	you not said here		at the gull; straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gull=Theme
4	slow down	present	the gull	food		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Shout at it as loud as you can, because gulls are scared of human voices

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obl
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shout	xcomp
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 can	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 can	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scared	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 scared	mark
11	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scared	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 scared	cop
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shout	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 voices	case
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voices	amod
16	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here			it		loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	gulls					of human voices; scared property	tree rules

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