Test 10 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…
A bird ringed in Greenland is seen next summer near Antarctica. Which bird is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: ring, see, be · To what, where: bird, Antarctica
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 169 «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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
Sentence 1: A bird ringed in Greenland is seen next summer near Antarctica.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ringed | ring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bird | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Greenland | case |
| 5 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ringed | obl:agent |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 summer | amod |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 Antarctica | case |
| 11 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | participle | a bird not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | present · passive | a bird | Antarctica | summer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: Which bird is most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 likely | cop |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which bird | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A ptarmigan of the tundra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ptarmigan | det |
| 2 | ptarmigan | ptarmigan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tundra | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tundra | det |
| 5 | tundra | tundra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ptarmigan | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An arctic tern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tern | det |
| 2 | arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tern | amod |
| 3 | tern | tern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A white snowy owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 owl | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 owl | amod |
| 3 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 owl | amod |
| 4 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A penguin flying north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 penguin | det |
| 2 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 penguin | acl |
| 4 | north | north | ADV | _ | 3 flying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | a penguin not said here | north property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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