Test 1 · ★ · Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bee…

«my mate says pigeons just follow motorways home» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, pigeons, best answer · What happens: say, follow, be · To what, where: motorways · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 232 «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 follow	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 follow	advmod
7	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	motorways	motorway	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 follow	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 follow	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 follow	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 follow	parataxis
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 What	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 answer	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 answer	amod
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 What	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow in a quote	present	pigeons	motorways	home property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

Right, pigeons can only follow motorways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 follow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 follow	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 follow	advmod
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	motorways	motorway	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	can	pigeons	motorways					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motorway=Theme

Option 2

Wrong, pigeons only ever follow the moon and the stars, never the roads

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pigeons	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 follow	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 follow	advmod
6	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stars	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stars	det
11	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 moon	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 roads	punct
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 roads	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roads	det
15	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	infinitive	Wrong pigeons	the moon and the stars			ever	the roads obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme

Option 3

Right, pigeons get lost without roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	nsubj
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 roads	case
7	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		pigeons				without roads	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They may use landmarks, but also the sun, smells and probably magnetism

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 use	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sun	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sun	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	9 sun	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smells	punct
11	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sun	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 magnetism	cc
13	probably	probably	ADV	_	14 magnetism	advmod
14	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	may	They	landmarks				the sun and smells and magnetism obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Patient

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