Test 10 · ★ · Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives
In the film Rio, Blu the blue macaw cannot fly at first and lives in a bookshop. What is true of Spix's macaws?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: blue macaw · What happens: not fly, live, be · To what, where: film, bookshop
This is test 10 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: In the film Rio, Blu the blue macaw cannot fly at first and lives in a bookshop.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | obl |
| 4 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 film | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Blu | punct |
| 6 | Blu | Blu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rio | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 macaw | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 macaw | amod |
| 9 | macaw | macaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fly | advmod |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 first | case |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 fly | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lives | cc |
| 16 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bookshop | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bookshop | det |
| 19 | bookshop | bookshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lives | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fly | can | the blue macaw | the film | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the blue macaw not said here | a bookshop | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bookshop=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: What is true of Spix's macaws?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 macaws | case |
| 5 | Spix | Spix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 macaws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Spix | case |
| 7 | macaws | macaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of Spix's macaws; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
They live only in bookshops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 bookshops | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bookshops | case |
| 5 | bookshops | bookshop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | They | bookshops | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bookshop=Location |
Option 2
They are the most common parrot on Earth and live in every big city park in the world
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 parrot | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 parrot | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parrot | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 common | advmod |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parrot | amod |
| 6 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parrot | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 live | cc |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 parrot | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 park | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 park | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 park | amod |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 park | compound |
| 15 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | the common parrot | Earth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present | They not said here | every big city park | in the world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location |
Option 3
They never lived in the wild at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wild | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wild | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past | They | the wild | at all | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They almost vanished from the wild, and some have been released again, it was reported
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 vanished | advmod |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wild | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wild | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 released | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 released | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 released | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 released | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 released | aux:pass |
| 12 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vanished | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 released | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reported | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reported | aux:pass |
| 17 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vanished | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | They | the wild | almost property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from wild=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | release | present · perfect · passive | some | again | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | report | past · passive | wild | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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