Test 4 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

«our rooster crowing at 3 in the afternoon, it's broken innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rooster · What happens: crow, break, be · To what, where: rooster

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	3 rooster	punct
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 rooster	nmod:poss
3	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broken	nsubj:pass
4	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 rooster	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 3	case
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 crowing	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 afternoon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 afternoon	det
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crowing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rooster	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 broken	nsubj:pass
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 broken	aux:pass
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broken	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 broken	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 broken	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crow in a quote	gerund	our rooster not said here		afternoon	at 3	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at 3=Stimulus
2	break in a quote	present · passive		our rooster			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient innit=Result
3	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

Roosters crow only at dawn, so he must be ill and needs a vet

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crow	nsubj
2	crow	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 dawn	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crow	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ill	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 ill	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ill	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 ill	cop
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crow	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 needs	cc
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crow	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vet	det
15	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crow	present	Roosters		dawn		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	must	he			ill property	tree rules
3	need	present	Roosters not said here	a vet			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

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

Roosters crow at many times of day to claim territory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crow	nsubj
2	crow	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 times	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crow	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 claim	mark
9	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 crow	advcl
10	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 claim	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	present	Roosters				time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	Roosters not said here	territory					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent territory=Topic

Option 3

He is telling time wrong on purpose

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 telling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	He			purpose	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He thinks it is morning

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	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 morning	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 morning	cop
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	morning					tree rules

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