Test 7 · Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kaka…

Ships brought cats to an island where a parrot walks about at night. Why is this so dangerous for the parrot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ships, parrot, this · What happens: bring, walk, be · To what, where: cats, island

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: Ships brought cats to an island where a parrot walks about at night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 walks	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 parrot	det
9	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walks	nsubj
10	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 island	acl:relcl
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 walks	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walks	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Ships	cats		a island			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme to island=Destination
2	walk	present	a parrot				night	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Why is this so dangerous for the parrot?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 parrot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parrot	det
8	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					for the parrot; dangerous property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cats eat only parrot food, so they would steal all the seeds and fruit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 food	advmod
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	compound
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 steal	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 steal	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 steal	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 steal	aux
10	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 seeds	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seeds	det
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 steal	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fruit	cc
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Cats	parrot food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	steal	would	Cats = cat	all seeds and fruit					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme

Option 2

The parrot is allergic to cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allergic	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allergic	cop
4	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allergic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the parrot					to cats; allergic property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The parrot never had ground hunters, so it does not run or fly away

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunters	compound
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 run	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 run	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 run	advmod
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 fly	cc
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 run	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have	past	the parrot	ground hunters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient
2	not run	present · do-support	parrot			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly away	infinitive	parrot not said here		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cats make the forest too noisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 noisy	advmod
6	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cats	the forest				noisy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Product

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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