Test 8 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water

What would a gull do if it found a mussel, a shellfish, too hard to open with its beak?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gull, mussel · What happens: do, find, open · To what, where: mussel

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gull	det
4	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mussel	det
10	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shellfish	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shellfish	det
13	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mussel	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hard	punct
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 hard	advmod
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 open	mark
18	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hard	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 beak	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beak	nmod:poss
21	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 open	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	would	a gull			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find a condition, not said to happen	past	gull	a mussel and a shellfish		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Topic
3	open	to-infinitive	a mussel and a shellfish not said here		with gull's beak	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Fly up and drop it onto rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Fly	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 drop	cc
4	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Fly	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drop	obj
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 rocks	case
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	imperative	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	infinitive	you not said here	it		rocks			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme onto rock=Destination

Option 2

Wait for the shell to open by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 shell	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shell	det
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 open	mark
6	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 open	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					for the shell	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	to-infinitive	you not said here					by shell	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3

Swallow it whole and spit out the shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Swallow	obj
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Swallow	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spit	cc
5	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Swallow	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 spit	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shell	det
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	imperative	you not said here	it				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	spit out	present	you not said here	the shell					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shell=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Give up eating shellfish for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shellfish	amod
4	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here	eating shellfish				for good	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shellfish=Source
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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