Test 3 · ★ · Budgies and canaries
«Pip's all puffed up and quiet since yesterday, prob just cold lol» What should happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: puff up, happen · To what, where: Pip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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 puffed | punct |
| 2 | Pip | pip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puffed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 puffed | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 puffed | advmod |
| 5 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 puffed | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 quiet | cc |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 puffed | conj |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 yesterday | case |
| 10 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puffed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prob | punct |
| 12 | prob | prob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yesterday | conj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 cold | advmod |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prob | amod |
| 15 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 14 cold | discourse |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 cold | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 happen | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 happen | aux |
| 19 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 puffed | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 puffed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff up in a quote | present · passive | Pip | yesterday | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | should | vn occur-48.3-1 «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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Give him a cold bath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bath | amod |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a cold bath | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bath=Theme |
Option 2
Leave him another week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 week | det |
| 4 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | him = he | week | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Take him to a vet soon, a fluffed-up quiet bird may be ill
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 vet | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vet | det |
| 5 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ill | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 9 | fluffed | fluff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bird | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 fluffed | compound:prt |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ill | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ill | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ill | cop |
| 16 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | him = he | a vet | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to vet=Destination | ||
| 2 | fluff up | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | may | a fluffed quiet bird | ill property | tree rules |
Option 4
Put him in the kitchen near the hot oven to warm him up quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 kitchen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kitchen | det |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 oven | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oven | det |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 oven | amod |
| 9 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 warm | mark |
| 11 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 warm | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 warm | compound:prt |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 warm | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | him = he | the kitchen | near the hot oven | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in kitchen=Destination | ||
| 2 | warm up | to-infinitive | you not said here | him = he | quickly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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