Test 8 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…

«toucan's beak is a giant banana, they eat with their feet» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: beak, they · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: giant banana · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 156 «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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	_	8 banana	punct
2	toucan	toucan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beak	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 toucan	case
4	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 banana	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 banana	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 banana	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 banana	amod
8	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 banana	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 feet	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 eat	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	11 eat	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 banana	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	toucan's beak	a giant banana		tree rules
2	eat in a quote	present	they		with their feet	tree rules
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

The beak is made of hard wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beak	det
2	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the beak				of hard wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Yes, the beak is filled with soft fruit like a bag it carries around

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 filled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beak	det
4	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 filled	aux:pass
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 fruit	case
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fruit	amod
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 bag	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fruit	nmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carries	nsubj
14	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fruit	acl:relcl
15	around	around	ADV	_	14 carries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present · passive		the beak				with soft fruit like a bag	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fruit=Instrument
2	carry around	present	beak	soft fruit like a bag not said here				around property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The beak is light bone inside, and it flicks fruit into its throat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beak	det
2	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bone	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bone	cop
4	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bone	amod
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 bone	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flicks	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flicks	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flicks	nsubj
10	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bone	acl:relcl
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flicks	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 throat	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 throat	nmod:poss
14	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flicks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the beak	light bone				inside property	tree rules
2	flick	present	beak	fruit		beak's throat			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme into throat=Destination

Option 4

Yes, toucans eat with their feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	toucans	toucan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	toucans					with toucans's feet	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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