Test 2 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

«grandad got his parrot when he was a kid, it's still alive, impossible» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, parrot · What happens: get, be · To what, where: parrot, kid

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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	_	3 got	punct
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parrot	nmod:poss
5	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 kid	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kid	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kid	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kid	det
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 alive	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 alive	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 alive	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 alive	advmod
15	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 impossible	punct
17	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 alive	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	grandad	grandad's parrot			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus
2	is a in a quote	past	grandad	a kid			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	parrot		still	alive property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		parrot not said here				tree rules
5	is	present				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

Parrots never get old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	Parrots					old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Right, parrots only live for about two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 parrots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 two	advmod
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	parrots				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It must be a different parrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 parrot	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 parrot	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 parrot	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parrot	amod
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	a different parrot					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Big parrots can live over sixty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 parrots	amod
2	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	can	Big parrots				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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