Test 9 · ★ · Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives

«that cockatoo's got its head feathers stuck up like a mohawk, what's up with him» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cockatoo, head feathers, mohawk · What happens: get, stick up, be · To what, where: head feathers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	5 got	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cockatoo	det
3	cockatoo	cockatoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 right	parataxis
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feathers	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	compound
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 got	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stuck	compound:prt
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 mohawk	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mohawk	det
13	mohawk	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 up	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 up	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 up	cop
17	up	up	ADV	_	13 mohawk	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 up	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	that cockatoo	cockatoo's head feathers		tree rules
2	stick up in a quote	participle	cockatoo's head feathers not said here		like a mohawk	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	a mohawk		with him = he; up property	tree rules
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 · ← Mova's choice

He is moulting all his feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moulting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moulting	aux
3	moulting	moult	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 feathers	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moulting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moult	present · progressive	He	his feathers					tree rules

Option 2

He is too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He is excited or alarmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 excited	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 excited	cop
3	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 alarmed	cc
5	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 excited	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					excited property	tree rules
2	alarm	participle	He not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He has just had a bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bath	det
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	He	a bath					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient

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