Test 8 · Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs

«loads of crumbs for all the pigeons, the more the better yeah?» What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 8 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: «loads of crumbs for all the pigeons, the more the better yeah?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 loads	punct
2	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 better	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 crumbs	case
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loads	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 pigeons	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 pigeons	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pigeons	det
8	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crumbs	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 better	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 more	det
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 better	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 better	det
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	13 better	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 better	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 better	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: What is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, pigeons hate bread and never eat it, they only eat seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eat	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hate	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 eat	advmod
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hate	conj
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hate	present	pigeons	bread	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus
2	not eat	infinitive	pigeons not said here	bread	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	eat	present	pigeons = pigeon	seeds	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 2

Yes, bread makes pigeons cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
6	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	bread	pigeons					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset pigeon=Beneficiary cleaner=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, too much food makes too many pigeons and spreads illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pigeons	amod
9	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 makes	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spreads	cc
11	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	conj
12	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spreads	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	much food	many pigeons					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material pigeon=Product
2	spread	present	much food not said here	illness					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location illness=Theme

Option 4

Yes, pigeons need bread every day to stay healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	advcl
10	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	pigeons	bread			day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bread=Theme
2	stay	to-infinitive	pigeons not said here					healthy property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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