Test 2 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water

In an animated fish film the gulls all scream «Mine! Mine!» and grab everything. What is true about real gulls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gulls · What happens: scream, grab, be · To what, where: Mine, animated fish film, everything

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 223 «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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: In an animated fish film the gulls all scream «Mine!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 film	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
3	animated	animated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 film	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 film	compound
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scream	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gulls	det
7	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scream	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 scream	advmod
9	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Mine	punct
11	Mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 scream	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 scream	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	the gulls	Mine		a animated fish film			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location

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: Mine!» and grab everything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grab	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Mine	punct
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Mine	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grab	cc
5	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 grab	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab in a quote	infinitive	the gulls = gull	everything					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Sentence 3: What is true about real gulls?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 gulls	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gulls	amod
6	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about real gulls; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are bold and quick to grab food, but they use many different calls

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bold	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bold	cop
3	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 quick	cc
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bold	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grab	mark
7	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 quick	advcl
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 use	nsubj
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bold	conj
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 calls	amod
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 calls	amod
15	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		bold property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here			tree rules
3	grab	to-infinitive	They not said here	food		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	use	present	they	many different calls		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient

Option 2

They never steal food from anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 steal	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 steal	advmod
3	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 steal	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 anybody	case
6	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not steal	present	They	food		anybody			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from anybody=Source

Option 3

They only eat seaweed and never touch chips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 touch	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
8	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	seaweed					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient
2	not touch	infinitive	They not said here	chips					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chip=Co-Theme

Option 4

They can really speak human words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 speak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	can	They	human words					tree rules

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