Test 11 · Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kaka…

Why does a kiwi chick need a big egg?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kiwi chick · What happens: need · To what, where: big egg

This is test 11 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	6 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chick	det
4	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chick	compound
5	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 egg	amod
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	a kiwi chick	a big egg					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot egg=Theme

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

Kiwi chicks are born as big as their parents and leave home on the first day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiwi	Kiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chicks	compound
2	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 born	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 parents	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 parents	nmod:poss
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 big	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 leave	cc
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 born	conj
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 leave	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		Kiwi chicks				big property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	leave	infinitive					day	home property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Kiwis lay eggs only to scare enemies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiwis	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 scare	mark
6	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	advcl
7	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Kiwis	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	scare	to-infinitive	Kiwis not said here	enemies					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A big egg makes a strong chick that can look after itself early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 egg	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 egg	amod
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chick	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chick	amod
7	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 look	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 look	aux
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chick	acl:relcl
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 itself	case
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 look	obl
13	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a big egg	a strong chick					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chick=Product
2	look	can	a strong chick				after egg	early property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The egg must float in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 float	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 float	aux
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	must	the egg			the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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