Test 10 · ★★ · Ducks, geese and farm myths

«why's that turkey going gobble gobble, is it a boy or a girl» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turkey, girl · What happens: go, be · To what, where: gobble gobble, boy

This is test 10 · ★★ 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	_	13 boy	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 boy	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boy	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 turkey	det
5	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	nsubj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 turkey	acl
7	gobble	gobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gobble	compound
8	gobble	gobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boy	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 boy	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 girl	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 girl	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	gerund	that turkey not said here	gobble gobble		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gobble=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	that turkey	a boy or a girl		tree rules
3	is	present	a girl		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

Only males gobble, so it is a male

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 males	advmod
2	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gobble	nsubj
3	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 male	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 male	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 male	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 male	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 male	det
9	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gobble	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	present	males						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a male					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Turkeys never gobble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gobble	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 gobble	advmod
3	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not gobble	present	Turkeys						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only females gobble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 females	advmod
2	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gobble	nsubj
3	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4

Both gobble the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 gobble	nsubj
2	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gobble	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	present	Both	the same					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent same=Theme

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