Test 4 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

«keep the cage in the kitchen so he's got company while we cook» What is wrong with this?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he, we · What happens: keep, get, cook, be · To what, where: cage, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	2 keep	punct
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cage	det
4	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 company	amod
12	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 cook	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 cook	nsubj
15	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	advcl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 keep	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 wrong	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wrong	cop
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 wrong	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the cage	the kitchen	got company obl	tree rules
2	get in a quote	present · passive	he				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	cook in a quote	present	we				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				with this; wrong 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

Birds hate company

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Birds	company					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing at all is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 wrong	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					wrong property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cooking fumes and smoke can harm or even kill small birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fumes	compound
2	fumes	fume	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harm	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 smoke	cc
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fumes	conj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 harm	aux
6	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 kill	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 kill	advmod
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 harm	conj
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 birds	amod
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	can	Cooking fumes and smoke						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	kill	infinitive	Cooking fumes and smoke not said here	small birds					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 4

Birds get too fat in kitchens from all the crumbs they are given

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fat	advmod
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 kitchens	case
6	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 crumbs	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 crumbs	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crumbs	det
10	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 given	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux:pass
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 crumbs	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Birds			kitchens		from all crumbs; fat property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from crumb=Destination
2	give	present · passive		Birds = bird					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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