Test 7 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

«brown eggs r healthier than white ones, mum says» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brown eggs, mum · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	5 healthier	punct
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eggs	amod
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 healthier	nsubj
4	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	5 healthier	cop
5	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 healthier	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 healthier	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 healthier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	brown eggs	than white ones; healthy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The shell colour comes from the breed; the egg inside is the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colour	compound
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 breed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breed	det
7	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 same	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 egg	det
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 same	nsubj
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	10 egg	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 same	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 comes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the shell colour			the breed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from breed=Initial_Location
2	is	present	the egg					same property	tree rules

Option 2

Brown eggs have twice the goodness, because the brown shell is thicker and stronger

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eggs	amod
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 have	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goodness	det
6	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thicker	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 thicker	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shell	det
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shell	amod
11	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thicker	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thicker	cop
13	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 have	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stronger	cc
15	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 thicker	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Brown eggs	the goodness	twice property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient
2	is	present	the brown shell		thick property	tree rules
3	be		the brown shell not said here			tree rules

Option 3

White eggs are bleached brown eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eggs	amod
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bleached	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bleached	aux:pass
4	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eggs	amod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bleached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleach	present · passive		White eggs					tree rules

Option 4

Blue eggs are poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eggs	amod
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisonous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	cop
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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