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Test 6 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

«hen's lying on her side in the dust flapping, she's dying!!» What is likely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hen, dust · What happens: lie, flap, die, be · To what, where: side

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: «hen's lying on her side in the dust flapping, she's dying!!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 side	nmod:poss
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dust	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dust	det
10	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
11	flapping	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 dust	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dying	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dying	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dying	aux
15	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lying	parataxis
16	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	15 dying	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	present · progressive	hen			hen's side		in the dust	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
2	flap in a quote	gerund	the dust not said here						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die in a quote	present · progressive	hen						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

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

The options

Option 1

She is having a heart attack

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 having	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 attack	det
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attack	compound
6	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She is happily dust bathing

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	5 bathing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bathing	cop
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	5 bathing	advmod
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bathing	compound
5	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	dust bathing				happily property	tree rules

Option 3

She is trying to dig to Australia

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 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dig	mark
5	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Australia	case
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	She						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dig not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here		Australia				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She is laying ten eggs at once

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 laying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laying	aux
3	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eggs	nummod
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laying	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 laying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · progressive	She	ten eggs					vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme at once=Destination

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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