Test 11 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

«how do I know if mine's a boy or a girl» Which clue helps with an adult budgie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, mine, clue · What happens: know, be, help · To what, where: boy

This is test 11 · ★ 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	_	5 know	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 know	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 helps	advcl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 boy	mark
7	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 boy	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	ccomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 girl	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 girl	punct
15	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 clue	det
16	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helps	nsubj
17	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 budgie	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 budgie	det
20	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 budgie	compound
21	budgie	budgie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helps	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	mine	a boy or a girl		tree rules
3	help	present	which clue		with a adult budgie	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with budgie=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 · ← Mova's choice

The colour of its feet only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 colour	nmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 colour	advmod

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

Option 2

The number of feathers in its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 feathers	case
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tail	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feathers	nmod

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

Option 3

Whether it likes seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 likes	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	it	seeds					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot seed=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The colour of the cere above the beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cere	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cere	det
5	cere	cere	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 beak	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beak	det
8	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cere	nmod

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

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