Test 11 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

«that cute robin just attacked another robin, what a psycho» Why do robins fight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cute robin, robins · What happens: attack, fight · To what, where: robin

This is test 11 · ★ 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	_	6 attacked	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 robin	det
3	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 robin	amod
4	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attacked	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 attacked	advmod
6	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 robin	det
8	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attacked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 psycho	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 psycho	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 psycho	det
12	psycho	psycho	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 robin	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 psycho	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fight	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fight	aux
16	robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fight	nsubj
17	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 psycho	acl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 attacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack in a quote	past	that cute robin	another robin					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robin=Patient
2	fight	present · do-support	robins						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They fiercely defend their territory

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 defend	nsubj
2	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	3 defend	advmod
3	defend	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 territory	nmod:poss
5	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 defend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defend	present	They	their territory				fiercely property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Beneficiary

Option 2

They are playing a friendly game of tag

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 playing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 playing	aux
3	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 game	amod
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tag	case
8	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	They	a friendly game of tag					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 3

They are only fighting over one fat worm

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 fighting	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fighting	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fighting	advmod
4	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 worm	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 worm	nummod
7	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 worm	amod
8	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present · progressive	They					over one fat worm	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over worm=Theme

Option 4

They are cleaning each other's feathers

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 cleaning	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaning	aux
3	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 other	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feathers	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 other	case
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cleaning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present · progressive	They	each other's feathers					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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