Test 6 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

«mum says seeds are bird food so seeds only, end of» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, seeds · What happens: say, be · To what, where: bird food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	3 says	punct
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	compound
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 seeds	case
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	nmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	9 seeds	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 What	case
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 of	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 end	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 What	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mum			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	seeds	bird food	so seeds	tree rules
3	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

Budgies should eat crisps too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	should	Budgies	crisps					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Budgies need vegetables and pellets too, not only seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pellets	cc
5	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vegetables	conj
6	too	too	ADV	_	2 need	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seeds	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 seeds	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 seeds	advmod
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Budgies	vegetables and pellets				seeds obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vegetable=Theme

Option 3

Seeds only is perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 perfect	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Seeds	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 perfect	cop
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Budgies need meat every day, like the wild birds in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Budgies	budgie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 birds	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 birds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 birds	amod
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 birds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Budgies	meat			day	like the wild birds in the garden	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme

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