Test 1 · ★★ · Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots

«don't be a bird brain, mate» Why might a scientist laugh at that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, scientist · What happens: not be, laugh · To what, where: bird brain

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 233 «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» 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	_	7 brain	punct
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 brain	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 brain	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 brain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brain	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brain	compound
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brain	vocative
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
11	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 laugh	advmod
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	aux
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 scientist	det
14	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laugh	nsubj
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brain	acl:relcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 laugh	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 brain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	a bird brain				mate vocative	tree rules
2	laugh	might	a scientist			a bird brain			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Birds have the biggest brains on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brains	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 brains	amod
5	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brains	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Birds	the biggest brains		Earth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

Option 2

Only fish are clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 fish	advmod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fish					clever property	tree rules

Option 3

Birds can talk like people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	can	Birds					like people	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Crows and parrots are among the cleverest animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 animals	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 parrots	cc
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crows	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 animals	cop
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 animals	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
7	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Crows and parrots					among the cleverest animals	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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