Test 1 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

«my budgie's blue so wild budgies must be blue too» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: blue budgies · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 205 «Budgies and canaries» 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	_	11 blue	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 budgie	nmod:poss
3	budgie	budgie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 budgies	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 budgie	case
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 budgies	amod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 wild	advmod
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	conj
8	budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blue	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 blue	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 blue	cop
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 blue	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 blue	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blue	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 blue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	my budgie's blue budgies					blue property	tree rules
2	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wild budgies are all green and yellow; blue was bred in pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 budgies	amod
2	budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 green	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 green	advmod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bred	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 yellow	cc
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 blue	punct
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bred	aux:pass
11	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 pets	case
13	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild budgies	all, green property	tree rules
2	be		Wild budgies not said here		tree rules
3	be		Wild budgies not said here		tree rules
4	breed	past · passive		in pets	tree rules

Option 2

Wild budgies are every colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 budgies	amod
2	budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 colour	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	cop
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wild budgies	every colour					tree rules

Option 3

Wild budgies are black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 budgies	amod
2	budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 black	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 black	cop
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild budgies					black property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, all wild budgies are blue, just like the sky they fly about in

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 blue	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 budgies	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 budgies	amod
5	budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blue	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	cop
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sky	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 sky	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blue	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fly	nsubj
14	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sky	acl:relcl
15	about	about	ADV	_	14 fly	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	7 blue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all wild budgies					like the sky; blue property	tree rules
2	fly	present	budgies = budgie	the sky not said here				about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sky=Theme

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