Test 8 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

«robin singing outside at midnight by the street lamp, is it mad» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: robin · What happens: sing, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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 robin	punct
2	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mad	nsubj
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 robin	acl
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 singing	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 lamp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lamp	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lamp	compound
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 robin	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mad	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mad	nsubj
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 mad	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 mad	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund	robin not said here	midnight	by the street lamp; outside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lamp=Location
2	is in a quote	present	robin		mad property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Robins sometimes sing at night near street lights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 sing	advmod
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 lights	case
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lights	compound
8	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	Robins			street lights	night	sometimes property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near light=Location

Option 2

It is lost and calling for help

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	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calling	cc
5	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lost	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 help	case
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	call	gerund						for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

Option 3

It is an owl pretending to be a robin to fool you

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	4 owl	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 owl	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 owl	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 owl	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	9 robin	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 robin	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 robin	det
9	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pretending	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fool	mark
11	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 robin	acl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a owl	tree rules
2	pretend	gerund	a owl not said here		tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	a owl not said here	a robin	tree rules
4	fool	to-infinitive	a owl not said here	you	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 4

Robins only sing at dawn, so it is ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 sing	advmod
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ill	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 ill	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ill	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ill	cop
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	Robins				dawn		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					ill property	tree rules

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