Test 1 · ★ · Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives

«my nan's parrot says ur late every time i come in, so it knows im late right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parrot, i · What happens: say, come in, know, be · To what, where: late, time, im · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 206 «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» 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	_	6 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parrot	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 nan	case
5	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 late	nmod:poss
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 late	obl:unmarked
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knows	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 knows	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knows	nsubj
17	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
18	im	im	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knows	obj
19	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 knows	advmod
20	right	right	ADV	_	24 right	advmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 right	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 right	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knows	advcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan's parrot	ur's late		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent late=Topic
2	come in in a quote	present	i	every time not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
3	know in a quote	present	parrot	im	late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer im=Stimulus
4	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

No, parrots cannot learn words at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 parrots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	advmod
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	parrots	words		all			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not really, it has learned the words go with someone coming in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learned	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 learned	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learned	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learned	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	aux
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 words	amod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 someone	case
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 go	obl
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 someone	acl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not learn	present · perfect	it		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	the learned words	with someone	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with someone=Beneficiary
3	come in	gerund			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it can tell the time by looking at the big clock on the wall

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tell	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 clock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clock	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clock	amod
13	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	it				time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund						on the wall; at the big clock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clock=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, parrots understand every word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 understand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 understand	nsubj
4	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	parrots	every word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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