Test 6 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

«my brother reckons the brown blackbird is a different bird» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, brown blackbird · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: different bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	4 reckons	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blackbird	det
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blackbird	amod
7	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bird	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	ccomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckons	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	my brother			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	the brown blackbird	a different bird		tree rules
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

It is a young robin that has not gone red yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 robin	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 robin	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 robin	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 robin	amod
5	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gone	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gone	advmod
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 robin	acl:relcl
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gone	xcomp
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a young robin					tree rules
2	not go	present · perfect	a young robin				yet	red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is a black one that rolled in mud on the lawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rolled	nsubj
7	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 mud	case
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 lawn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lawn	det
12	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a black one					tree rules
2	roll	past	a black one			mud		on the lawn	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mud=Source on lawn=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a female blackbird; only males are black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blackbird	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blackbird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 blackbird	det
4	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blackbird	amod
5	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 black	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 males	advmod
8	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 black	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 black	cop
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blackbird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a female blackbird					tree rules
2	is	present	males					black property	tree rules

Option 4

He is right, it is a song thrush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thrush	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thrush	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thrush	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thrush	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thrush	compound
9	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a song thrush					tree rules

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