Test 1 · ★★ · Ducks, geese and farm myths

«my teacher said a duck's quack doesn't echo, mad innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, quack · What happens: say, not echo, be · To what, where: mad innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 213 «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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	_	4 said	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 teacher	nmod:poss
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 duck	det
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quack	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 duck	case
8	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 echo	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 echo	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 echo	advmod
11	echo	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 innit	amod
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 echo	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 echo	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	4 said	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not echo in a quote	present · do-support	a duck's quack	mad innit		vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location innit=Theme
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 · ✓ the right answer

It is a myth; tests showed the quack does echo, just quietly

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	4 myth	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 showed	punct
6	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 showed	nsubj
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 quack	det
9	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 showed	ccomp
11	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quietly	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 quietly	advmod
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 showed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a myth		tree rules
2	show	past	tests	a myth not said here	quietly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent myth=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	present	the quack	echo		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, it is the only sound in the world that cannot echo, scientists say

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sound	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sound	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sound	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sound	amod
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sound	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 echo	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 echo	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 echo	advmod
14	echo	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 world	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the only sound	the world	tree rules
2	not echo	can	the world			vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	the only sound			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, a quack echoes only in caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 echoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 echoes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 quack	det
4	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 echoes	nsubj
5	echoes	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 caves	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 caves	case
8	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 echoes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	echo	present	a quack	caves					vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cave=Theme

Option 4

Yes, because ducks quack underwater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 quack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quack	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 quack	mark
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quack	nsubj
5	quack	quack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	underwater	underwater	ADV	_	5 quack	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quack	present	ducks					underwater property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/t1/