Test 10 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

«thousands of starlings swirling over the pier, why don't they bump» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: thousands · What happens: swirl, not bump, be · To what, where: pier

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 216 «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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 swirling	punct
2	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swirling	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 starlings	case
4	starlings	starling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thousands	nmod
5	swirling	swirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 pier	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pier	det
8	pier	pier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swirling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bump	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 bump	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bump	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bump	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bump	nsubj
14	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swirling	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 bump	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	14 bump	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swirling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	swirl in a quote	gerund	thousands of starlings	the pier		vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pier=Destination
2	not bump in a quote	present · do-support	thousands = thousand			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Each bird follows only its nearest neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follows	nsubj
3	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 neighbours	advmod
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neighbours	nmod:poss
6	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 neighbours	amod
7	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	each bird	bird's nearest neighbours					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme

Option 2

A leader shouts directions to the whole flock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	nsubj
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shouts	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 flock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flock	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flock	amod
8	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	a leader	directions	the whole flock				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Topic to flock=Recipient

Option 3

They bump all the time and many fall

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 bump	nsubj
2	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bump	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bump	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	present	They				time		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	fall	present	many						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They are all tied together

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	4 tied	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 tied	advmod
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	present · passive		They				all, together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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