Test 10 · The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish an…

«why's no one ever seen that peacock thing» Why is the Congo peafowl so rarely seen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: see, be · To what, where: peacock thing, Congo peafowl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 160 «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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	_	7 seen	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 seen	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 seen	advmod
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 seen	advcl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 thing	det
9	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 peafowl	advmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 peafowl	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 peafowl	det
15	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 peafowl	compound
16	peafowl	peafowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 seen	advmod
18	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	19 seen	advmod
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · passive	no one	that peacock thing	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	is a	present		the Congo peafowl			tree rules
3	see	participle				rarely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 right answer

It is shy and lives only deep in the Congo forest

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	3 shy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	cop
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 deep	cc
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deep	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 deep	advmod
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shy	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
10	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 forest	compound
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					shy property	tree rules
2	is	present				the Congo forest		deep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It lives underground in burrows and only comes up at night to feed

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	underground	underground	ADV	_	2 lives	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 burrows	case
5	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lives	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 comes	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 comes	advmod
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lives	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 comes	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feed	mark
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 comes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It	burrows		underground property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrow=Location
2	come up	present			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed	to-infinitive					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It only comes out once a year

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	3 comes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 comes	compound:prt
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 comes	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	It					once property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It is extinct

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	3 extinct	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 extinct	cop
3	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					extinct property	tree rules

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