Test 9 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…

«bowerbird's nest full of blue bottle tops lol, is he a thief» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nest, thief · What happens: be · To what, where: thief

This is test 9 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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	_	4 nest	punct
2	bowerbird	bowerbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nest	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bowerbird	case
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thief	nsubj
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nest	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 tops	case
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tops	amod
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tops	compound
9	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 full	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nest	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thief	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thief	nsubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thief	det
15	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 thief	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thief	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 thief	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	bowerbird's nest	a thief					tree rules
2	is	present	a thief					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 · ← Mova's choice

He is hiding from the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hiding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · progressive	He			the rain			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from rain=Beneficiary

Option 2

He eats bottle tops to help him digest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tops	compound
4	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eats	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	He	bottle tops	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	He not said here	him = he	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	digest	infinitive	him = he not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He collects blue things to decorate his bower and impress a female

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 collects	nsubj
2	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collects	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 decorate	mark
6	decorate	decorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 collects	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bower	nmod:poss
8	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 decorate	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 impress	cc
10	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decorate	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 female	det
12	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 impress	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	collect	present	He	blue things	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	decorate	to-infinitive	He not said here	his bower	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bower=Destination
3	impress	infinitive	He not said here	a female	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus female=Experiencer

Option 4

He is building a little bottle shop to sell things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 building	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 building	aux
3	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shop	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shop	amod
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shop	compound
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sell	mark
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 building	advcl
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · progressive	He	a little bottle shop					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Product
2	sell	to-infinitive	He not said here	things					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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