Test 10 · Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kaka…

Why do many island birds in Hawaii now live only high up in the mountains?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: many island birds · What happens: do, live · To what, where: mountains

This is test 10 of lesson 181 «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 live	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birds	compound
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Hawaii	case
7	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 birds	nmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 live	advmod
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 up	advmod
11	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 up	advmod
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 live	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many island birds in Hawaii not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	present	many island birds in Hawaii			the mountains	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location

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 birds like the view

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 view	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 view	det
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 birds	nmod

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

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

Mosquitoes that carry bird malaria do not live well in the cold high places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 carry	nsubj
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mosquitoes	acl:relcl
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 malaria	compound
5	malaria	malaria	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 live	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 live	advmod
8	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 live	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 places	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 places	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 places	amod
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 places	amod
14	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Mosquitoes	bird malaria					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malaria=Theme
2	not live	present · do-support	Mosquitoes			the cold high places		well property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

Option 3

There is more nectar on the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 nectar	amod
4	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	more nectar			the beach; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location

Option 4

The birds are afraid of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 afraid	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the birds					of the sea; afraid property	tree rules

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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