Test 11 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

«that hen at the top pecks all the others, she's just mean» What is happening?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hen · What happens: peck, mean, happen · To what, where: others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 212 «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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	_	7 pecks	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hen	det
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pecks	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hen	nmod
7	pecks	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 others	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pecks	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mean	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mean	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mean	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 mean	advmod
15	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pecks	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 mean	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happening	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 happening	aux
19	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 mean	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pecks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	peck in a quote	present	that hen at the top	all others	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient
2	mean in a quote	present	hen		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	present · progressive			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

She is teaching them to read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 teaching	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 teaching	aux
3	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 teaching	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 teaching	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · progressive	She		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	read	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is the pecking order: she is top hen and eats first

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 order	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 order	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 order	det
4	pecking	pecking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 order	compound
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 hen	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hen	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hen	cop
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hen	amod
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 order	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eats	cc
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hen	conj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 eats	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the pecking order		tree rules
2	is a	present	she	top hen		tree rules
3	eat	present	she not said here		first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She is cleaning their feathers, because the others cannot reach their own backs

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cleaning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaning	aux
3	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feathers	nmod:poss
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cleaning	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reach	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 reach	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reach	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 reach	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 reach	advmod
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cleaning	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 backs	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 backs	amod
15	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present · progressive	She	their feathers					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	not reach	can	the others	others's own backs					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent back=Theme

Option 4

She is ill and confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 confused	cc
5	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					ill property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here						tree rules

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