Test 3 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water

«gull's doing a funny tap dance on the footy pitch» What is it most likely doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: gull · What happens: do, be · To what, where: funny tap dance, footy pitch

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct
2	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dance	det
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dance	amod
7	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	compound
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 pitch	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pitch	det
11	footy	footy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pitch	amod
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 doing	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 doing	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 doing	nsubj
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADV	_	19 doing	advmod
19	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 doing	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	gull	a funny tap dance		the footy pitch			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality
2	is	present	gull					do, likely 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

Trying to break the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 break	mark
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	break not said to happen	to-infinitive		the grass					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Patient

Option 2

Dancing to music from a car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 music	case
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 car	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				a car		to music	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory

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

Stamping to bring worms up, like rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 bring	mark
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stamping	xcomp
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 bring	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rain	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 rain	case
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	gerund							tree rules
2	bring up	to-infinitive		worms				like rain	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent worm=Patient

Option 4

Waiting for the ball to land so it can peck it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 peck	csubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 ball	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 land	mark
6	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Waiting	advcl
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 land	obl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 peck	aux
10	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 peck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund			for the ball	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land	to-infinitive			so ball	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	peck	can	Waiting	ball		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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