Test 6 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…

«found a baby bird on the grass, I touched it, now its mum'll dump it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, mum · What happens: find, touch, dump, be · To what, where: baby bird, grass, bird

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 154 «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 touched	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 touched	nsubj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touched	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dump	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 dump	advmod
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dump	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 dump	aux
18	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 touched	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dump	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 dump	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dump	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a baby bird	the grass			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	touch in a quote	past	I	bird				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	dump in a quote	future	bird's mum	bird		now		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme
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

Yes, birds hate human smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smell	amod
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	birds	human smell					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, so take it home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its parents will not abandon it; a feathered fledgling is best left alone with them nearby

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 abandon	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 abandon	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 abandon	advmod
5	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 abandon	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fledgling	det
9	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fledgling	amod
10	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux:pass
12	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 left	advmod
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 abandon	advcl
14	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 left	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obl
17	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	13 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not abandon	future	Its parents	it					vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme it=Source
2	leave	present · passive		a feathered fledgling				with parents = parent; alone, nearby, well property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, so put it in a box with some bread and keep it in your room

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 box	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 box	det
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 bread	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 bread	det
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 keep	cc
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 room	nmod:poss
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it		a box		with some bread	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in box=Destination
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	bread		your room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in room=Location

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