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Test 6 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

Watching geese, you see the front bird drop back and another take its place. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, front bird · What happens: watch, see, drop back, take · To what, where: geese, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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

Sentence 1: Watching geese, you see the front bird drop back and another take its place.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 see	advcl
2	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watching	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Watching	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	nsubj
9	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 drop	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 take	det
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 drop	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 place	nmod:poss
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	you not said here	geese					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
2	see	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	drop back	infinitive	the front bird						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	take	infinitive	the front bird not said here	bird's place					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

The leader got lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the leader						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	participle	the leader not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The front bird fell asleep in the air and slipped back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slipped	cc
10	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 slipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the front bird			the air		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in air=Location
2	slip back	past	the front bird not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

The front is hardest, so they take turns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 front	det
2	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hardest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hardest	cop
4	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 take	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
8	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hardest	parataxis
9	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the front					hard property	tree rules
2	take	present	they	turns					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

Option 4

They are racing

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 racing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 racing	aux
3	racing	race	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	present · progressive	They						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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