Test 9 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

«chickens r just vegetarian, they eat seeds» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: chickens · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: seeds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 vegetarian	punct
2	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vegetarian	nsubj
3	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetarian	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 vegetarian	advmod
5	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetarian	parataxis
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eat	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 vegetarian	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	chickens		vegetarian property	tree rules
2	eat in a quote	present	chickens = chicken	seeds		tree rules
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

They eat only grass like cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 grass	advmod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 cows	case
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	grass				like cows	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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

They are omnivores and eat insects, worms and even mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 omnivores	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 omnivores	cop
3	omnivores	omnivore	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 eat	cc
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 omnivores	acl:relcl
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 worms	punct
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 omnivores	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mice	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 mice	advmod
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 omnivores	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	omnivores and worms and mice					tree rules
2	eat	present	omnivores and worms and mice not said here	insects					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient

Option 3

Yes, chickens eat only seeds and the odd bit of bread from the kitchen

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 seeds	advmod
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bit	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bit	det
9	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bit	amod
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bread	case
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	chickens	seeds		the kitchen			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 4

They eat only meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 meat	advmod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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