Test 11 · ★★ · Ducks, geese and farm myths

«why's the front goose always changing» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: front goose · What happens: change, be

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	_	8 changing	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 changing	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 changing	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goose	det
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goose	amod
6	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changing	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 changing	advmod
8	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 changing	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 changing	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 changing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change in a quote	present · progressive	the front goose					always property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	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 front goose keeps getting lost, so another one takes over the map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goose	det
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goose	amod
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 getting	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 takes	advmod
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keeps	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 map	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 map	det
14	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	keep	present	the front goose		tree rules
2	get	gerund	the front goose not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lose	participle	the front goose not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	present	another one	the map	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The front goose falls asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goose	det
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goose	amod
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falls	nsubj
4	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 falls	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	the front goose					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They take turns because the front is most tiring

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 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 tiring	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 front	det
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tiring	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tiring	cop
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 tiring	advmod
9	tiring	tiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	They	turns					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
2	is	present	the front					tiring property	tree rules

Option 4

They are racing to be first

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 racing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 racing	aux
3	racing	race	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 first	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 first	cop
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 racing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	present · progressive	They						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	They not said here					first property	tree rules

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