Test 4 · ★★ · Ducks, geese and farm myths

«chuck them the old bread, ducks love it» What is better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ducks · What happens: chuck, love, be · To what, where: them, bread

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	_	2 chuck	punct
2	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chuck	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chuck	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 love	nsubj
9	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 chuck	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 love	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 better	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 love	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	them = they		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination bread=Theme
2	love in a quote	present	ducks	bread		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present			good 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

Bread is the best food for ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 food	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ducks	case
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bread	the best food				for ducks	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Peas, sweetcorn or oats, because bread fills them up with little goodness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sweetcorn	punct
3	sweetcorn	sweetcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Peas	conj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 oats	cc
5	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Peas	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fills	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 fills	mark
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fills	nsubj
9	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Peas	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fills	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 fills	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 goodness	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 goodness	amod
14	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	present	bread	oats = oat				with little goodness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with goodness=Instrument

Option 3

Crisps are better than bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 bread	case
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Crisps					than bread; good property	tree rules

Option 4

Ducks should never be fed anything at all, not even peas, or they forget how to find food

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fed	aux:pass
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 fed	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 anything	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 peas	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 peas	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 peas	advmod
12	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 forget	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forget	nsubj
16	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 find	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forget	xcomp
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not feed	should · passive		Ducks	peas obl	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient anything=Theme
2	forget	present	Ducks = duck			tree rules
3	not find	to-infinitive	Ducks = duck not said here	food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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