Test 10 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals
«ok the bird's hurt, let's keep it in my room and feed it bread»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 's · What happens: hurt, let, keep, feed · To what, where: bird, 's, room
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 226 «Kindness to wild animals» 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 | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
| 2 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 6 hurt | discourse |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 let | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feed | cc |
| 16 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 keep | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 feed | obj |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feed | obj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | participle · passive | the bird | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | bird | my room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in room=Location | |||
| 4 | feed in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | bird | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient bread=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 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, birds like living in bedrooms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 birds | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 living | mark |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 birds | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bedrooms | case |
| 7 | bedrooms | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 living | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | birds not said here | bedrooms | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bedroom=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Better tell an adult to call a wildlife rescue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better | better | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | aux |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 call | mark |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rescue | det |
| 8 | wildlife | wildlife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rescue | compound |
| 9 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | a wildlife rescue | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rescue=Recipient |
Option 3
Put it out on the road so it can fly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Put | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 fly | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fly | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | aux |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | imperative | you not said here | it | the road | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on road=Destination | |||
| 2 | fly | can | road | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, bread will make it better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | bread | it | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product |
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