Test 3 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

«found a baby bird on the lawn, feathers n hopping, gonna take it home and save it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feathers · What happens: find, n, hop, take, save, be · To what, where: baby bird, lawn, bird

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lawn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lawn	det
8	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 n	punct
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 n	nsubj
11	n	n	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
12	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 n	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
14	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	15 take	dep
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 n	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	home	home	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 save	cc
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 save	obj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 save	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 right	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 save	advcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a baby bird	the lawn		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	n in a quote	present	feathers				tree rules
3	hop in a quote	gerund	feathers not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take in a quote	infinitive	feathers not said here	bird		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	save in a quote	infinitive	feathers not said here	bird			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	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

Put it in the fridge to keep it fresh until it can fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fridge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fridge	det
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Put	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 fly	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fly	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	aux
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it	the fridge		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fridge=Destination
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	fridge		fresh property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	fly	can	fridge				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Take it home and feed it milk from a spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feed	cc
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feed	obj
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 spoon	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spoon	det
10	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	feed	present	you not said here	it		a spoon			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient milk=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Leave it; it is a fledgling and its parents still feed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 fledgling	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fledgling	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fledgling	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fledgling	det
7	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feed	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feed	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 feed	advmod
12	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a fledgling		tree rules
3	feed	present	fledgling's parents	fledgling	still	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Throw it up in the air to help it fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Throw	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw up	imperative	you not said here	it	the air	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	help	to-infinitive	you not said here	air		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	fly	infinitive	air not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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