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Test 7 · Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs

A girl feeds the same pigeons every day; a boy chases them. Next week, what might the pigeons do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, boy, pigeons · What happens: feed, chase, do · To what, where: same pigeons, pigeons

This is test 7 of lesson 221 «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» 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

Sentence 1: A girl feeds the same pigeons every day; a boy chases them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	nsubj
3	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pigeons	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pigeons	amod
6	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feeds	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 chases	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chases	nsubj
12	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feeds	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chases	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feeds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	a girl	the same pigeons			day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Recipient
2	chase	present	a boy	pigeons = pigeon					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Next week, what might the pigeons do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 week	amod
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pigeons	det
7	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	might	the pigeons				week		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Treat both children the same way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Treat	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Treat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	imperative	you not said here		both children			the same way obl:unmarked	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

Option 2

Follow the boy because he is fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Follow	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 fast	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fast	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	cop
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Follow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	imperative	you not said here	the boy					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	is	present	boy					fast property	tree rules

Option 3

Forget both of them by the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Forget	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 both	nmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	imperative	you not said here	both			day		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Come to the girl and fly off from the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 girl	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fly	compound:prt
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here					to the girl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to girl=Initial_Location
2	fly off	infinitive	you not said here					from the boy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from boy=Trajectory

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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