Test 7 · The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, j…

«a birdeater?? so it eats birds every day lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: birdeater · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: birdeater

This is test 7 of lesson 157 «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 birdeater	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 birdeater	det
3	birdeater	birdeater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obl
4	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 birdeater	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 eats	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eats	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obl:unmarked
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	15 right	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eats	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	birdeater	a birdeater			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	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, a bird for every meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 meal	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 meal	det
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bird	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Despite its name it mostly eats insects, worms and frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Despite	despite	ADP	_	3 name	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eats	nsubj
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 eats	advmod
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eats	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worms	punct
9	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frogs	cc
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	name	insects and worms and frogs				despite its name; mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
2	name		its = it						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It eats only bird eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bird	advmod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eggs	compound
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	bird eggs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 4

It eats only parrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 parrots	advmod
4	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	parrots					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Patient

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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