Test 6 · ★ · Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives

What would happen to a clever parrot left alone in a small cage with nothing to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, leave, do · To what, where: clever parrot, small cage

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 parrot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 parrot	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parrot	amod
7	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 parrot	acl
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 cage	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cage	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cage	amod
13	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 nothing	case
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 happen	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to a clever parrot; with nothing	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle	a clever parrot not said here	in a small cage result; alone property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cage=Result
3	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It would sleep all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	It				year		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would be perfectly happy on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	cop
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			its own		happy, perfectly property	tree rules

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

It could get stressed and pull out its own feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stressed	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stressed	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stressed	aux:pass
4	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pull	cc
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stressed	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 pull	compound:prt
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feathers	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feathers	amod
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress	could · passive		It					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	pull out	infinitive		its own feathers					tree rules

Option 4

It would learn to read the newspaper at the bottom of its cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 read	mark
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 newspaper	det
7	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 cage	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cage	nmod:poss
13	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	to-infinitive		the newspaper		the bottom of bottom's cage			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme at bottom=Value

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