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Test 2 · ★ · Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives

In Aladdin, Iago the parrot argues and cracks sarcastic jokes. What is true of real parrots?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: parrot · What happens: argue, crack, be · To what, where: Aladdin, sarcastic jokes

This is test 2 · ★ 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 Aladdin, Iago the parrot argues and cracks sarcastic jokes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Aladdin	case
2	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 argues	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Iago	punct
4	Iago	Iago	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Aladdin	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 argues	nsubj
7	argues	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cracks	cc
9	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 argues	conj
10	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 jokes	amod
11	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cracks	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 argues	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	the parrot			Aladdin and Iago			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	crack	present	the parrot not said here	sarcastic jokes					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joke=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.

Sentence 2: What is true of real parrots?

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	_	6 parrots	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parrots	amod
6	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of real parrots; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They cannot make any sounds 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	4 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sounds	det
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	They	any sounds		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 2

They only talk to other parrots in English

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 talk	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 talk	advmod
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 parrots	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parrots	amod
6	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 English	case
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	They			English		to other parrots	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parrot=Co-Agent

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

They can copy words and learn some labels, but they do not hold conversations

The tree, 14 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 copy	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 copy	aux
3	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copy	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 learn	cc
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 copy	conj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 labels	det
8	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hold	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hold	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hold	advmod
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 copy	conj
15	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	can	They	words					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	learn	infinitive	They not said here	some labels					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic
3	not hold	present · do-support	labels = label	conversations					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme

Option 4

They talk in full sentences like people

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 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sentences	case
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sentences	amod
5	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sentences	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	They			full sentences like people			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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